Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 47
... character . If you maintain a dead church , con- tribute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens I have difficulty ...
... character . If you maintain a dead church , con- tribute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens I have difficulty ...
Page 51
... character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza ; read it for- ward , backward , or across , it still spells the same thing . In this pleasing , contrite wood - life which God allows me , let me record day by day my honest thought ...
... character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza ; read it for- ward , backward , or across , it still spells the same thing . In this pleasing , contrite wood - life which God allows me , let me record day by day my honest thought ...
Page 52
... character . is cumulative . All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and ...
... character . is cumulative . All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and ...
Page 59
... character they chance to see , painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards , when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings , they understand them , and are willing to let the words go ...
... character they chance to see , painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards , when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings , they understand them , and are willing to let the words go ...
Page 90
... character re- mains the same , in Turkey and in New England about alike . Under the primeval despots of Egypt , history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him . - These appearances indicate the fact ...
... character re- mains the same , in Turkey and in New England about alike . Under the primeval despots of Egypt , history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him . - These appearances indicate the fact ...
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