Essays, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Page 111
... relations are speedily punished . They are pun- ished by fear . Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow - man , I have no displeasure in meet- ing him . We meet as water meets water , or as two currents of air mix , with perfect ...
... relations are speedily punished . They are pun- ished by fear . Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow - man , I have no displeasure in meet- ing him . We meet as water meets water , or as two currents of air mix , with perfect ...
Page 179
... relations of friendship or love known and described in society , but , as it seems to me , to a quite other and unattaina- ble sphere , to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness , to what roses and violets hint and foreshow ...
... relations of friendship or love known and described in society , but , as it seems to me , to a quite other and unattaina- ble sphere , to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness , to what roses and violets hint and foreshow ...
Page 203
... relations with him . No man would think of speaking falsely with him , or of putting him off with any chat of markets or reading - rooms . But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing , and what love of ...
... relations with him . No man would think of speaking falsely with him , or of putting him off with any chat of markets or reading - rooms . But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing , and what love of ...
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