The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Page 14
... the significant thing is that He had for teachers the humble people , work with tools , the solemn , silent hills , and a few beautiful , intensely spiritual books , and that out of this teaching He learned to speak with authority .
... the significant thing is that He had for teachers the humble people , work with tools , the solemn , silent hills , and a few beautiful , intensely spiritual books , and that out of this teaching He learned to speak with authority .
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... and re- ligion , but timidly — allowing them at this day to take fifteen hours of study in foreign languages to three meagre hours in their glorious native tongue . And these are to be poets and prophets ! Then they must needs speak ...
... and re- ligion , but timidly — allowing them at this day to take fifteen hours of study in foreign languages to three meagre hours in their glorious native tongue . And these are to be poets and prophets ! Then they must needs speak ...
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Living in lonely places like this , you are a prey to obsessions ; you are obsessed by certain sleepless thoughts ; they stir in your heart while you sleep , and they speak without ceas- ing of ...
Living in lonely places like this , you are a prey to obsessions ; you are obsessed by certain sleepless thoughts ; they stir in your heart while you sleep , and they speak without ceas- ing of ...
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He will speak to you often of these things . I see myself stretched at ease on the deck of My Steamer , sunk in an ex- cess of languor and of calm . It is a night as bright as silver and as clear as glass . We are moored to a great tree ...
He will speak to you often of these things . I see myself stretched at ease on the deck of My Steamer , sunk in an ex- cess of languor and of calm . It is a night as bright as silver and as clear as glass . We are moored to a great tree ...
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O Master do not wake Thy friends who sleep here for thy sake ! Disturb them not , O Mighty Guest ! They sleep ! They have such need of rest ! The Master smiles , then He and I Go softly ; speak but whisperingly . THE INTERPRETER .
O Master do not wake Thy friends who sleep here for thy sake ! Disturb them not , O Mighty Guest ! They sleep ! They have such need of rest ! The Master smiles , then He and I Go softly ; speak but whisperingly . THE INTERPRETER .
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