Essays, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Page 131
... seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much . All loss , all pain , is particular ; the universe remains to the heart unhurt . " Neither vexations nor calamities abate our trust . No man ever stated his griefs as ...
... seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much . All loss , all pain , is particular ; the universe remains to the heart unhurt . " Neither vexations nor calamities abate our trust . No man ever stated his griefs as ...
Page 346
... seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and litera- ture , and to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics . I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world . With a geometry of ...
... seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and litera- ture , and to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics . I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world . With a geometry of ...
Page 356
... seems to be merely initial . The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret . The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the ever- changing " landscape with figures ...
... seems to be merely initial . The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret . The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the ever- changing " landscape with figures ...
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