Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 72
... Past and the Distant . The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished . It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model . It was an application of his own thought to the thing to be done and the conditions to be ...
... Past and the Distant . The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished . It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model . It was an application of his own thought to the thing to be done and the conditions to be ...
Page 115
... past . Even the corpse - - that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house . The soul will not know either deformity or pain . If , in the hours of clear reason , we should speak the severest truth , we should say ...
... past . Even the corpse - - that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house . The soul will not know either deformity or pain . If , in the hours of clear reason , we should speak the severest truth , we should say ...
Page 117
... past . Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house . The soul will not know either deformity or pain . If , in the hours of clear reason , we should speak the severest truth , we should say ...
... past . Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house . The soul will not know either deformity or pain . If , in the hours of clear reason , we should speak the severest truth , we should say ...
Page 121
... past , or of a wiser mind in the pres- ent , we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves . The face of external nature teaches the same les- son . Nature will not have us fret and fume . She does not ...
... past , or of a wiser mind in the pres- ent , we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves . The face of external nature teaches the same les- son . Nature will not have us fret and fume . She does not ...
Page 196
... past and the future . He is the child of all my foregoing hours , the prophet of those to come , and the harbinger of a greater friend . If I do then with my friends as I do with my books . I would have them where I can find them , but ...
... past and the future . He is the child of all my foregoing hours , the prophet of those to come , and the harbinger of a greater friend . If I do then with my friends as I do with my books . I would have them where I can find them , but ...
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