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Is n't this utopian foreign element brought in without criterion for judging history a project brushing off too much of the bloom of good enough to be true and simple the children's perishable spontaneity . enough to be tried ?
Is n't this utopian foreign element brought in without criterion for judging history a project brushing off too much of the bloom of good enough to be true and simple the children's perishable spontaneity . enough to be tried ?
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True to slowly con True to slowly coming . As a wise man has the name which he coined to express said , " Because science is sure of nothhis general attitude , Huxley was an ing , it is always advancing .
True to slowly con True to slowly coming . As a wise man has the name which he coined to express said , " Because science is sure of nothhis general attitude , Huxley was an ing , it is always advancing .
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It was true ; the slim form of Virginio The scene , precisely etched in slen- appeared crucified upon one of the der lines upon a clear green west of stucco walls of the inclosure . His feet early winter , was the garden of a small were ...
It was true ; the slim form of Virginio The scene , precisely etched in slen- appeared crucified upon one of the der lines upon a clear green west of stucco walls of the inclosure . His feet early winter , was the garden of a small were ...
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It is true that non - existent sins against Virginio . she did not actually touch him ; they see how tenderly he addresses the eluwere running along the laurel alley , sive child . She shrinks , she starts like and he stumbled and fell ...
It is true that non - existent sins against Virginio . she did not actually touch him ; they see how tenderly he addresses the eluwere running along the laurel alley , sive child . She shrinks , she starts like and he stumbled and fell ...
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cried the cardiand the chevalier subsided into a con- nal , his voice vibrating to the chill versation with Peter Innocent , who re along his spine . mained immersed in his breviary , “ True ; only too true , ” said Chastelvouchsafing ...
cried the cardiand the chevalier subsided into a con- nal , his voice vibrating to the chill versation with Peter Innocent , who re along his spine . mained immersed in his breviary , “ True ; only too true , ” said Chastelvouchsafing ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.