Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 316 pagine |
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Pagina 23
... sentiment , as in practical power , religion , liberty , sense of honor , and taste . In the hesitation to define what it is , we usually suggest it by negations . A nation that has no clothing , no iron , no alphabet , no marriage , no ...
... sentiment , as in practical power , religion , liberty , sense of honor , and taste . In the hesitation to define what it is , we usually suggest it by negations . A nation that has no clothing , no iron , no alphabet , no marriage , no ...
Pagina 26
... sentiment in mankind ; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter , as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it , I look upon as a fine meter of ...
... sentiment in mankind ; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter , as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it , I look upon as a fine meter of ...
Pagina 29
... sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate ; and some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions , as the genius of Egypt , of India , and of Arabia . These feats are measures or traits of ...
... sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate ; and some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions , as the genius of Egypt , of India , and of Arabia . These feats are measures or traits of ...
Pagina 54
... sentiments . ---- Proceeding from absolute mind , whose nature is goodness as much as truth , the great works are always attuned to moral nature . If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice , so do the masterpieces of art ...
... sentiments . ---- Proceeding from absolute mind , whose nature is goodness as much as truth , the great works are always attuned to moral nature . If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice , so do the masterpieces of art ...
Pagina 68
... sentiment , the attention deepens , a new and highest audience now listens , and the audiences of the fun and of facts and of the understanding are all silenced and awed . There is also something excellent in every audi- ence , the ...
... sentiment , the attention deepens , a new and highest audience now listens , and the audiences of the fun and of facts and of the understanding are all silenced and awed . There is also something excellent in every audi- ence , the ...
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