Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 48
... look but at one side , -the permitted side , not as a man , but as a parish minister ? He is a retained attorney , and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affecta- tion . Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another ...
... look but at one side , -the permitted side , not as a man , but as a parish minister ? He is a retained attorney , and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affecta- tion . Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another ...
Page 49
... look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour . If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own , he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of the multitude , like ...
... look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour . If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own , he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of the multitude , like ...
Page 54
... looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air , much like a gay equipage , and seem to say like that , ' Who are you , Sir ? ' Yet they all are his , suitors for his no- tice ...
... looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air , much like a gay equipage , and seem to say like that , ' Who are you , Sir ? ' Yet they all are his , suitors for his no- tice ...
Page 62
... the urns of other men . We must go alone . I like the silent church before the service begins , bet- ter than any preaching . How far off , how cool , how chaste the persons look , begirt each one with a 62 ESSAY II .
... the urns of other men . We must go alone . I like the silent church before the service begins , bet- ter than any preaching . How far off , how cool , how chaste the persons look , begirt each one with a 62 ESSAY II .
Page 63
Ralph Waldo Emerson. chaste the persons look , begirt each one with a pre- cinct or sanctuary ! So let us always sit . Why should we assume the faults of our friend , or wife , or fa- ther , or child , because they sit around our hearth ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. chaste the persons look , begirt each one with a pre- cinct or sanctuary ! So let us always sit . Why should we assume the faults of our friend , or wife , or fa- ther , or child , because they sit around our hearth ...
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