Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 423
... thought , that shall be as efficient , in all respects , to a remote pos- terity , as to contemporaries , or rather to the second age . Each age , it is found , must write its own books ; or rather , each generation for the next ...
... thought , that shall be as efficient , in all respects , to a remote pos- terity , as to contemporaries , or rather to the second age . Each age , it is found , must write its own books ; or rather , each generation for the next ...
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... thought can never ripen into truth . Whilst the world . hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty , we cannot even see its beauty . Inaction is cowardice , but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind . The preamble of thought ...
... thought can never ripen into truth . Whilst the world . hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty , we cannot even see its beauty . Inaction is cowardice , but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind . The preamble of thought ...
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... thought , and the accomplished and perfect master of every trick and turn of human thought from the loftiest to the basest . Lavater says that a man can only be a perfect physiog- nomist who has all the good qualities , for even the ...
... thought , and the accomplished and perfect master of every trick and turn of human thought from the loftiest to the basest . Lavater says that a man can only be a perfect physiog- nomist who has all the good qualities , for even the ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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