Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 43
... write our annals , from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , if we would trulier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to ...
... write our annals , from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , if we would trulier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to ...
Page 53
... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me ...
... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me ...
Page 83
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil and a bill of ex- change in his pocket , and the naked New Zea- lander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep un- der ! But ...
... writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil and a bill of ex- change in his pocket , and the naked New Zea- lander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep un- der ! But ...
Page 91
... write a discourse on Compensation ; for it seemed to me when very young that on this subject life was ahead of theology and the people knew more than the preachers taught . The documents too from which the doctrine is to be drawn ...
... write a discourse on Compensation ; for it seemed to me when very young that on this subject life was ahead of theology and the people knew more than the preachers taught . The documents too from which the doctrine is to be drawn ...
Page 97
... writes the laws of cities and nations . It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it . Things refuse to be mismanaged long . Res nolunt diu male administrari . Though no checks to a new evil appear , the checks exist , and will ...
... writes the laws of cities and nations . It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it . Things refuse to be mismanaged long . Res nolunt diu male administrari . Though no checks to a new evil appear , the checks exist , and will ...
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