Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 49
... effort and advancing on Chaos and the Dark . What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children , babes , and even brutes ! That divided and rebel mind , that VOL . II 4 SELF - RELIANCE . 49.
... effort and advancing on Chaos and the Dark . What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children , babes , and even brutes ! That divided and rebel mind , that VOL . II 4 SELF - RELIANCE . 49.
Page 50
... faces we are disconcerted . Infancy con- forms to nobody ; all conform to it ; so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its ...
... faces we are disconcerted . Infancy con- forms to nobody ; all conform to it ; so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its ...
Page 56
... face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gen- eral history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , ” the ...
... face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gen- eral history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , ” the ...
Page 57
... face , with the most disagreeable sensation . For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure . And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face . The by - standers look ask- ance on him in the public street or in ...
... face , with the most disagreeable sensation . For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure . And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face . The by - standers look ask- ance on him in the public street or in ...
Page 57
... face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gen- eral history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the ...
... face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gen- eral history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the ...
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