The Treasure Chest: An Anthology of Contemplative ProseJames Donald Adams E.P. Dutton, Incorporated, 1946 - 402 Seiten |
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... Laws MANNERS are of more importance than laws . Upon them , in a great measure , the laws depend . The law touches us but here and there , and now and then . Manners are what vex or soothe , corrupt or purify , exalt or debase ...
... Laws MANNERS are of more importance than laws . Upon them , in a great measure , the laws depend . The law touches us but here and there , and now and then . Manners are what vex or soothe , corrupt or purify , exalt or debase ...
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... law of our shifting moods and susceptibility ? Yet they differ as all and noth- ing . Instead of the firmament of ... laws , we lose our hold on the central reality . Like sick men in hos- pitals , we change only from bed to bed ...
... law of our shifting moods and susceptibility ? Yet they differ as all and noth- ing . Instead of the firmament of ... laws , we lose our hold on the central reality . Like sick men in hos- pitals , we change only from bed to bed ...
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... law just like Louis Napoleon , strange to see realistic teaching everywhere serving to smother under a mass of facts ... laws of the moral nature ( persuasion , adherence , faith ) ; equality , the principle of mediocrity , becom- ing ...
... law just like Louis Napoleon , strange to see realistic teaching everywhere serving to smother under a mass of facts ... laws of the moral nature ( persuasion , adherence , faith ) ; equality , the principle of mediocrity , becom- ing ...
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH | 13 |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | 22 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE | 38 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry beauty better bird body C. S. Lewis character creature dead death delight dreams dust E. B. White earth Ellen Glasgow evil eyes fear feel friends GEORGE SANTAYANA give H. M. TOMLINSON happiness hath heart heaven HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL human imagination individual keep kind knew laugh laws liberty light living look man's mankind means memory ment mind moral nature ness never night object opinion ourselves pain pass passions past peace person pleasure poet poetry prose RALPH WALDO EMERSON reason rich Robert Henriques SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE seems sense sentiment sleep solitude soul speak spirit stars strong talk temper things thou thought tion tree true truth Van Wyck Brooks vanity virtue voice walk whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wind wisdom wise women words write youth