Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 62
... seem to say like that , ' Who are you , Sir ? ' Yet they all are his , suitors for his notice , petitioners to his faculties that they will come out and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to command me , but ...
... seem to say like that , ' Who are you , Sir ? ' Yet they all are his , suitors for his notice , petitioners to his faculties that they will come out and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to command me , but ...
Page 71
... seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles . Friend , client , child , sickness , fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door and All come not into their confusion . The power men possess say ...
... seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles . Friend , client , child , sickness , fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door and All come not into their confusion . The power men possess say ...
Page 74
... seem to be drawn out , and we are become timorous , de- sponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death and afraid of each other . Our age yields no great and perfect per- sons . We want men and women ...
... seem to be drawn out , and we are become timorous , de- sponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death and afraid of each other . Our age yields no great and perfect per- sons . We want men and women ...
Page 75
... seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being dis- heartened and in complaining the rest of his life . A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont , who in turn tries all the professions , who teams it , farms it ...
... seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being dis- heartened and in complaining the rest of his life . A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont , who in turn tries all the professions , who teams it , farms it ...
Page 79
... seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imag- ine how you aliens have any right to see , how you can see ; ' It must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' They do not yet perceive that light ...
... seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imag- ine how you aliens have any right to see , how you can see ; ' It must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' They do not yet perceive that light ...
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