Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... virtue . Crossing a bare common , in snow - puddles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration . think how glad I am . In the woods ...
... virtue . Crossing a bare common , in snow - puddles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration . think how glad I am . In the woods ...
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... be loved without effeminacy , is that which is found in com- bination with the human will , and never separate . Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue . Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is also 20 Nature .
... be loved without effeminacy , is that which is found in com- bination with the human will , and never separate . Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue . Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is also 20 Nature .
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... Virtue ; " said an ancient historian . " The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , perchance in a scene ...
... Virtue ; " said an ancient historian . " The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , perchance in a scene ...
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... Virtue sitting by his side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man , only ...
... Virtue sitting by his side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man , only ...
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... virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colours of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each ...
... virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colours of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each ...
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