Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 51
... 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 handkerchief , and ...
... 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 handkerchief , and ...
Page 76
... side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent , like the workers of a treadmill . It under- goes continual changes : it is barbarous , it is civil- ized , it is Christianized , it is rich , it is scientific ; but this ...
... side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent , like the workers of a treadmill . It under- goes continual changes : it is barbarous , it is civil- ized , it is Christianized , it is rich , it is scientific ; but this ...
Page 94
... side of nature the sweet , without the other side - the bitter . Steadily is this dividing and detaching counter- acted . Up to this day , it must be 94 ESSAY III .
... side of nature the sweet , without the other side - the bitter . Steadily is this dividing and detaching counter- acted . Up to this day , it must be 94 ESSAY III .
Page 104
... love is mathematically just , as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation . The good man has absolute good , which like fire turns everything to its own nature , so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal 104 ESSAY III .
... love is mathematically just , as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation . The good man has absolute good , which like fire turns everything to its own nature , so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal 104 ESSAY III .
Page 106
... side of his assailants . It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point . The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him , like a dead skin , and when they would triumph , lo ! he has passed on invulnerable . Blame is ...
... side of his assailants . It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point . The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him , like a dead skin , and when they would triumph , lo ! he has passed on invulnerable . Blame is ...
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