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... perfect con- tentment is to possess one's soul in peace . Emerson combined high intellect with pure honesty , and remained faithful to the double law of the intellectual life -high thinking and fearless utterance — to the end of his ...
... perfect con- tentment is to possess one's soul in peace . Emerson combined high intellect with pure honesty , and remained faithful to the double law of the intellectual life -high thinking and fearless utterance — to the end of his ...
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... perfect ordonnance which gives such an imposing air to a work of art . I say " apparently perfect ordonnance , " because in such cases the perfection of the arrangement is often only apparent , and the work is like those formal pseudo ...
... perfect ordonnance which gives such an imposing air to a work of art . I say " apparently perfect ordonnance , " because in such cases the perfection of the arrangement is often only apparent , and the work is like those formal pseudo ...
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... perfect indifference . One has a severe taste for beautiful form and an active contempt for picturesque accidents and romantic associations , the other feels chilled by severe beauty , and delights in the picturesque and romantic . If ...
... perfect indifference . One has a severe taste for beautiful form and an active contempt for picturesque accidents and romantic associations , the other feels chilled by severe beauty , and delights in the picturesque and romantic . If ...
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... perfect solitude . It may be argued that to escape solitude the victim has nothing to do but associate with a lower class , but this is not easy or natural , especially when , as in Dobell's case , there is intellectual culture . Those ...
... perfect solitude . It may be argued that to escape solitude the victim has nothing to do but associate with a lower class , but this is not easy or natural , especially when , as in Dobell's case , there is intellectual culture . Those ...
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... perfect stranger , and that I stay for some days in a village where I do not know a soul . In a sur- prisingly short time I shall have made acquaintances and begun to acquire rather a home - like feeling in the place . My new ...
... perfect stranger , and that I stay for some days in a village where I do not know a soul . In a sur- prisingly short time I shall have made acquaintances and begun to acquire rather a home - like feeling in the place . My new ...
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