Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 27
... is in the playhouse ; independent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tri and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad SELF - RELIANCE 27.
... is in the playhouse ; independent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tri and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad SELF - RELIANCE 27.
Page 28
... pass again into his neutrality ! Who can thus avoid all pledges , and having observed , observe again from the same ... passing affairs , which being seen to be not private , but necessary , would sink like darts into the ear of men ...
... pass again into his neutrality ! Who can thus avoid all pledges , and having observed , observe again from the same ... passing affairs , which being seen to be not private , but necessary , would sink like darts into the ear of men ...
Page 29
... pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest : have ...
... pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest : have ...
Page 33
... pass for what we are . Character teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . There will be an agreement in ...
... pass for what we are . Character teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . There will be an agreement in ...
Page 38
... pass away , —means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre ...
... pass away , —means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre ...
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