EssaysHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1883 - 270 páginas |
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... tion of thought . The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness . The circumcision is an ex- ample of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive . Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols . The meaner the ...
... tion of thought . The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness . The circumcision is an ex- ample of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive . Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols . The meaner the ...
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... tion , for he does not stop at these facts , but employs them as signs . He knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars ; why the great deep is adorned with animals , with men ...
... tion , for he does not stop at these facts , but employs them as signs . He knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars ; why the great deep is adorned with animals , with men ...
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... tion . We need change of objects . Dedication to one thought is quickly odious . We house with the insane , and must humor them ; then conversation dies out . Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any ...
... tion . We need change of objects . Dedication to one thought is quickly odious . We house with the insane , and must humor them ; then conversation dies out . Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any ...
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... tion must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence . Their opinion gives me tidings of their mood , and some vague guess at the new fact , but is nowise to be trusted as the lasting relation ...
... tion must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence . Their opinion gives me tidings of their mood , and some vague guess at the new fact , but is nowise to be trusted as the lasting relation ...
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... tion ; I am and I have : but I do not get , and when I have fancied I had gotten anything , I found I did not . I worship with wonder the great Fortune . My reception has been so large , that I am not an- noyed by receiving this or that ...
... tion ; I am and I have : but I do not get , and when I have fancied I had gotten anything , I found I did not . I worship with wonder the great Fortune . My reception has been so large , that I am not an- noyed by receiving this or that ...
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