Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 81
... expression are as near to us as to any , and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him , con- sidering the climate , the soil , the length of the day , the wants of the people , the habit ...
... expression are as near to us as to any , and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him , con- sidering the climate , the soil , the length of the day , the wants of the people , the habit ...
Page 105
... expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations , which are always the literature of reason , or the statements of an abso- lute truth without qualification . Proverbs , like the sacred books of each nation , are the sanctuary of ...
... expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations , which are always the literature of reason , or the statements of an abso- lute truth without qualification . Proverbs , like the sacred books of each nation , are the sanctuary of ...
Page 135
... expression of what force and meaning is in him . The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into , and tends it as a dog turns a spit . Then is he a part ...
... expression of what force and meaning is in him . The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into , and tends it as a dog turns a spit . Then is he a part ...
Page 148
... expression . When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of as the heavens . When he has base ends and speaks falsely , the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint . truth , his eye is as clear I have heard an experienced counsellor say that ...
... expression . When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of as the heavens . When he has base ends and speaks falsely , the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint . truth , his eye is as clear I have heard an experienced counsellor say that ...
Page 150
... - pression . Men know not why they do not trust him , but they do not trust him . His vice glasses his eye , cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek , pinches the nose , sets the mark of the beast 150 SPIRITUAL LAWS .
... - pression . Men know not why they do not trust him , but they do not trust him . His vice glasses his eye , cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek , pinches the nose , sets the mark of the beast 150 SPIRITUAL LAWS .
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