Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 103
... conversation . It finds a tongue in literature un- awares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of ...
... conversation . It finds a tongue in literature un- awares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of ...
Page 142
... conversation that can enchant her graceful lord ? He shall have his own society . We can love nothing but nature . The most wonderful talents , the most meritorious exertions really avail very lit- tle with us ; but nearness or likeness ...
... conversation that can enchant her graceful lord ? He shall have his own society . We can love nothing but nature . The most wonderful talents , the most meritorious exertions really avail very lit- tle with us ; but nearness or likeness ...
Page 248
... conversation with finite nature? And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE ...
... conversation with finite nature? And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE ...
Page 252
... conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission ; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak 252 THE OVER-SOUL.
... conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission ; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak 252 THE OVER-SOUL.
Page 254
... conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade, — the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on ...
... conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade, — the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on ...
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