Essays of the Past and PresentWarner Taylor Harper & Brothers, 1927 - 612 من الصفحات |
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... XI . WILLIAM JAMES " On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings " 152 XII . AGNES REPPLIER " On a Certain Condescension in Americans " 173 XIII . WILL DURANT " Is Progress a Delusion ? " 185 XIV . ROBERT LITTELL " Let There Be Ivy " CONTENTS.
... XI . WILLIAM JAMES " On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings " 152 XII . AGNES REPPLIER " On a Certain Condescension in Americans " 173 XIII . WILL DURANT " Is Progress a Delusion ? " 185 XIV . ROBERT LITTELL " Let There Be Ivy " CONTENTS.
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... human nature never changes , holds true , and most of these writers concern themselves with the permanent in human nature . It almost seems like rejecting the best that has been said and thought in the world to turn from them . " From ...
... human nature never changes , holds true , and most of these writers concern themselves with the permanent in human nature . It almost seems like rejecting the best that has been said and thought in the world to turn from them . " From ...
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... human nature is represented , sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher , lively describing Christian resolution , that saileth in the frail barque of the flesh through the waves of the world . But to speak in a ...
... human nature is represented , sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher , lively describing Christian resolution , that saileth in the frail barque of the flesh through the waves of the world . But to speak in a ...
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... human intercourse itself , he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind . He resolved , in the gloomy re- cesses of a mind capacious of such things , to leave ...
... human intercourse itself , he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind . He resolved , in the gloomy re- cesses of a mind capacious of such things , to leave ...
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... human nature itself that , on better thoughts , I find it more advisable to throw a pall over this hideous object , and to leave it to your general conceptions . For eighteen months , without intermission , this destruction raged from ...
... human nature itself that , on better thoughts , I find it more advisable to throw a pall over this hideous object , and to leave it to your general conceptions . For eighteen months , without intermission , this destruction raged from ...
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admire AGNES REPPLIER American artist beauty Benares bird Bishop of Beauvais Charlotte Corday dark dead death Domrémy earth English essays eyes face fancy fear feel France FRANCIS BACON gentleman give hand Hastings hear heart heaven hour human Hyder Ali India kind permission kingdom of Mysore lady LAFCADIO HEARN less light literary literature living look man's Manhattan Transfer matter mean Médoc mind moral nation nature never Nevermore night once pass peace perhaps person phrase pleasure poem poet poetry prose race ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON seems seen sense side smile soul sound speak speech spirit story style talk things thou thought thousand tion true truth turn verse virtue voice whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wind woman words writing young
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الصفحة 343 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
الصفحة 342 - THE gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
الصفحة 267 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries -a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed W my mind, which thus itself subdued.
الصفحة 7 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.