Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 180
... particular failures . No advantages , no powers , no gold or force , can be any match for him . I cannot choose but rely on my own poverty more than on your wealth . I cannot make your consciousness tantamount to mine . Only the star ...
... particular failures . No advantages , no powers , no gold or force , can be any match for him . I cannot choose but rely on my own poverty more than on your wealth . I cannot make your consciousness tantamount to mine . Only the star ...
Page 189
... particular , a poet says , love demands that the parties be altogether paired , ) that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured . It cannot subsist in its perfection , say some of those who are learned in this warm lore of the heart ...
... particular , a poet says , love demands that the parties be altogether paired , ) that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured . It cannot subsist in its perfection , say some of those who are learned in this warm lore of the heart ...
Page 213
... particular kind of stock . Strike , says the smith , the iron is white ; keep the rake , says the haymaker , as nigh the scythe as you can , and the cart as nigh the rake . Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of ...
... particular kind of stock . Strike , says the smith , the iron is white ; keep the rake , says the haymaker , as nigh the scythe as you can , and the cart as nigh the rake . Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of ...
Page 228
... particular action , yet for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed , and is not open to the censure of philosophers or divines . It is the avowal of the unschooled man , that he finds a quality in him that is negligent of ...
... particular action , yet for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed , and is not open to the censure of philosophers or divines . It is the avowal of the unschooled man , that he finds a quality in him that is negligent of ...
Page 244
... particular being is contained and made one with all other ; that common heart , of which all sincere conversation is the worship , to which all right action is submission ; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents ...
... particular being is contained and made one with all other ; that common heart , of which all sincere conversation is the worship , to which all right action is submission ; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents ...
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