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... friends or to a limited public . He had given up the regular prac- tice of lecturing , but would sometimes , upon special request , read a paper that had been prepared for him from his manuscripts , in the manner described in the ...
... friends or to a limited public . He had given up the regular prac- tice of lecturing , but would sometimes , upon special request , read a paper that had been prepared for him from his manuscripts , in the manner described in the ...
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... friends and agents . It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear . He who understands the art of war , reckons the hos- tile battalions and cities , opportunities and spoils . Mer 66 ...
... friends and agents . It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear . He who understands the art of war , reckons the hos- tile battalions and cities , opportunities and spoils . Mer 66 ...
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... friends , but some figure I was resolved to make . " - It will be agreed everywhere that society must have the benefit of the best leaders . How to obtain them ? Birth has been tried and failed . Caste in India has no good result ...
... friends , but some figure I was resolved to make . " - It will be agreed everywhere that society must have the benefit of the best leaders . How to obtain them ? Birth has been tried and failed . Caste in India has no good result ...
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... friend , the more spacious is our realm , the more diameter our spheres have . It is a meas- ure of culture , the number of things taken for granted . When a man begins to speak , the churl will take him up by disputing his first words ...
... friend , the more spacious is our realm , the more diameter our spheres have . It is a meas- ure of culture , the number of things taken for granted . When a man begins to speak , the churl will take him up by disputing his first words ...
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... friend . That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances . One trait more we must celebrate , the self- reliance which is the patent of royal natures . It is so prized a jewel that it is sure to ...
... friend . That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances . One trait more we must celebrate , the self- reliance which is the patent of royal natures . It is so prized a jewel that it is sure to ...
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Página 96 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 98 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 230 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Página 449 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Página 311 - Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation. Every one for himself; driven to find all his resources, hopes, rewards, society and deity within himself. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
Página 96 - Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing...
Página 352 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
Página 444 - Now chiefly is my natal hour. And only now my prime of life; I will not doubt the love untold. Which not my worth nor want have bought, Which wooed me young, and wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought.
Página 444 - ... and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
Página 336 - I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.