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... feelings once believed to be religious are now found to be separable from religion . If a French peasant has a feeling for architecture , poetry , or music , or an appreciation of eloquence , or a desire to hear a kind of moral ...
... feelings once believed to be religious are now found to be separable from religion . If a French peasant has a feeling for architecture , poetry , or music , or an appreciation of eloquence , or a desire to hear a kind of moral ...
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... feeling it . I have given considerable space to the consideration of these changes , but not a disproportionate space . They have a deplor- able effect on human intercourse by dividing friends and families into different groups , and by ...
... feeling it . I have given considerable space to the consideration of these changes , but not a disproportionate space . They have a deplor- able effect on human intercourse by dividing friends and families into different groups , and by ...
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... feeling the most sincere respect for anybody who deserved it . So it is , generally , with all who have the gifts of sympathy and intelligence . Merely to avoid what is disagreeable has nothing to do with pride of station . Vulgar ...
... feeling the most sincere respect for anybody who deserved it . So it is , generally , with all who have the gifts of sympathy and intelligence . Merely to avoid what is disagreeable has nothing to do with pride of station . Vulgar ...
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... feels chilled by severe beauty , and delights in the picturesque and romantic . If each is convinced of the superiority of his own principles , he will deduce from 1 An expression used to me by a learned Doctor of Oxford . them an ...
... feels chilled by severe beauty , and delights in the picturesque and romantic . If each is convinced of the superiority of his own principles , he will deduce from 1 An expression used to me by a learned Doctor of Oxford . them an ...
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... feelings of mutual respect and sympathy draw the strangers together . On the other hand , there is not the least assurance that the mere fact of being born in the same country will make two men regard each other with kindness . An ...
... feelings of mutual respect and sympathy draw the strangers together . On the other hand , there is not the least assurance that the mere fact of being born in the same country will make two men regard each other with kindness . An ...
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