Essays: First series, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - 343 páginas |
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... conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by per- sonal allusions . A true aspirant therefore never ...
... conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by per- sonal allusions . A true aspirant therefore never ...
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... renewed . Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invig orated by habits of conversation with nature . When the gods The power of music , the power of poetry , to 34 HISTORY .
... renewed . Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invig orated by habits of conversation with nature . When the gods The power of music , the power of poetry , to 34 HISTORY .
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... the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spon- " " taneously moved but moved by a low usurping wil- fulness 56 SELF - RELIANCE .
... the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spon- " " taneously moved but moved by a low usurping wil- fulness 56 SELF - RELIANCE .
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... cannot demonstrate . For men are wiser than they know . That which they hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought , if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence . If a man dog- COMPENSATION . 93.
... cannot demonstrate . For men are wiser than they know . That which they hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought , if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence . If a man dog- COMPENSATION . 93.
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... conversation . It finds a tongue in literature un- awares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of ...
... conversation . It finds a tongue in literature un- awares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of ...
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