Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... human life and character . The aim of culture , therefore , is the perfection of our human nature on all its sides , in all its capacities . First , it tries to determine in what this perfection consists , and in order to solve this ...
... human life and character . The aim of culture , therefore , is the perfection of our human nature on all its sides , in all its capacities . First , it tries to determine in what this perfection consists , and in order to solve this ...
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... human life . He knew that a novelist had no right even to introduce the terrible except for the purpose of exhibiting human hero- ism , developing character , awakening emotions which , when awakened , dignify and save from harm . It is ...
... human life . He knew that a novelist had no right even to introduce the terrible except for the purpose of exhibiting human hero- ism , developing character , awakening emotions which , when awakened , dignify and save from harm . It is ...
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... human sense of dependence and the divine existence , and was at least neutral on the point of the independence and ... human nature : not by one part alone , whether called intellect or spirit , head or heart ; but by the whole human ...
... human sense of dependence and the divine existence , and was at least neutral on the point of the independence and ... human nature : not by one part alone , whether called intellect or spirit , head or heart ; but by the whole human ...
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