Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 25
... sentiment ; it makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart . Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world , so only it have the countenance of the beloved object In giving him to another it ...
... sentiment ; it makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart . Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world , so only it have the countenance of the beloved object In giving him to another it ...
Page 44
... sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resem- blance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the reach of the understand- ing . Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She ...
... sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resem- blance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the reach of the understand- ing . Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She ...
Page 53
... sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at in- tervals , who disclose to us new ...
... sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at in- tervals , who disclose to us new ...
Page 57
... sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of ...
... sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of ...
Page 58
... sentiment of the powers of science . The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understand- ing the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of ...
... sentiment of the powers of science . The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understand- ing the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of ...
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