Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 81
... bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign orna- ments ; our opinions , our tastes , our ...
... bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign orna- ments ; our opinions , our tastes , our ...
Page 94
... body ; in the systole and diastole of the heart ; in the undulations of fluids and of sound ; in the centrifugal and cen- tripetal gravity ; in electricity , galvanism , and chem- ical affinity . Superinduce magnetism at one end of a ...
... body ; in the systole and diastole of the heart ; in the undulations of fluids and of sound ; in the centrifugal and cen- tripetal gravity ; in electricity , galvanism , and chem- ical affinity . Superinduce magnetism at one end of a ...
Page 101
... body would feast . The soul says , ' The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul ; ' the body would join the flesh only . The soul says , ' Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue ; ' the body would have the power over ...
... body would feast . The soul says , ' The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul ; ' the body would join the flesh only . The soul says , ' Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue ; ' the body would have the power over ...
Page 115
... bodies voluntarily be- reaving themselves of reason and traversing its work . The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast . Its fit hour of activity is night . Its actions are insane , like its whole con- stitution ...
... bodies voluntarily be- reaving themselves of reason and traversing its work . The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast . Its fit hour of activity is night . Its actions are insane , like its whole con- stitution ...
Page 142
... body is in the room . What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind , which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings ? Gertrude is enamored of Guy ; how high , how ...
... body is in the room . What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind , which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings ? Gertrude is enamored of Guy ; how high , how ...
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