Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists ...G. P. Putnam's sons, 1883 |
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... moral anxiety in that direction . To talk seemed then in the same category as to sleep ; not an accomplishment , but ... moral usefulness , I came to make an object of the profoundest interest on principles of art . Betting , in like ...
... moral anxiety in that direction . To talk seemed then in the same category as to sleep ; not an accomplishment , but ... moral usefulness , I came to make an object of the profoundest interest on principles of art . Betting , in like ...
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... moral fibre must be braced too . And we , because we have braced the moral fibre , are not on that account in the right way , if at the same time the idea of beauty , harmony , and complete human perfec- tion is wanting or ...
... moral fibre must be braced too . And we , because we have braced the moral fibre , are not on that account in the right way , if at the same time the idea of beauty , harmony , and complete human perfec- tion is wanting or ...
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... moral perfection , or rather to relative moral perfection . No people in the world have done more and struggled more to attain this relative moral perfection than our English race has . For no people in the world has the command to ...
... moral perfection , or rather to relative moral perfection . No people in the world have done more and struggled more to attain this relative moral perfection than our English race has . For no people in the world has the command to ...
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THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE By W Irving | 3 |
THE WORLD OF BOOKS | 25 |
IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES | 43 |
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