Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 41
... experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall ... experiences ; his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in ...
... experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall ... experiences ; his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in ...
Page 42
... Consu- lates to these neighboring systems of being ? Nay , what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal - hunter , for the Kanaka in his canoe , for the fisherman , the stevedore , the 42 HISTORY .
... Consu- lates to these neighboring systems of being ? Nay , what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal - hunter , for the Kanaka in his canoe , for the fisherman , the stevedore , the 42 HISTORY .
Page 56
... experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gen- eral history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation ...
... experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gen- eral history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation ...
Page 68
... wholly strange and new . It shall exclude example and experience . You take the way from man , not to man . All per- sons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers . Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is 68 SELF - RELIANCE .
... wholly strange and new . It shall exclude example and experience . You take the way from man , not to man . All per- sons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers . Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is 68 SELF - RELIANCE .
Page 85
... experience dies with them . And so the reliance on Property , including the reliance on governments which protect it , is the want of self - reliance . Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to ...
... experience dies with them . And so the reliance on Property , including the reliance on governments which protect it , is the want of self - reliance . Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to ...
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