Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 59
... character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza ; -read it forward , 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 forward , 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 60
... 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 con- sciousness 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 con- sciousness of a train of great days and ...
Page 61
... Character , reality , re- minds you of nothing else ; it takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires ...
... Character , reality , re- minds you of nothing else ; it takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires ...
Page 68
... character they chance to see , - painfully recollecting the ex- act 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 ...
... character they chance to see , - painfully recollecting the ex- act 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 ...
Page 98
... character remains the same , in Turkey and in New England about alike . Under the primeval de- spots of Egypt , history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him . - These appearances indicate the fact ...
... character remains the same , in Turkey and in New England about alike . Under the primeval de- spots 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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