A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... mean approbation . 68 Colton : Lacon . Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself ; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions . 69 Cicero : Ep . ii . 7 . I do not like giving advice , because it is an unnecessary ...
... mean approbation . 68 Colton : Lacon . Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself ; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions . 69 Cicero : Ep . ii . 7 . I do not like giving advice , because it is an unnecessary ...
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... means by which it attains its ends less mechanical . 103 Hazlitt : Table Talk . Second Series . Pt . i . Essay x . On Thought and Action . Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity . To have more ambition ...
... means by which it attains its ends less mechanical . 103 Hazlitt : Table Talk . Second Series . Pt . i . Essay x . On Thought and Action . Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity . To have more ambition ...
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... means of appear- ances , to produce the illusion of a loftier reality . 201 Goethe : Truth and Poetry . ( Godwin , Translator . ) Bk . xi . The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws ...
... means of appear- ances , to produce the illusion of a loftier reality . 201 Goethe : Truth and Poetry . ( Godwin , Translator . ) Bk . xi . The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws ...
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... means of which to express a He beholds in nature beauty still unexpressed in nature . Lect . iii . Lect . iii . more than nature herself holds or is conscious of . 213 Henry James : Lectures and Miscellanies . The Principle of ...
... means of which to express a He beholds in nature beauty still unexpressed in nature . Lect . iii . Lect . iii . more than nature herself holds or is conscious of . 213 Henry James : Lectures and Miscellanies . The Principle of ...
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... means ; and art is always likest her when it is most inex- plicable . 227 Ruskin Modern Painters . Pt . i . Sec . 2 , Ch . 2 . All art is great , and good , and true , only so far as it is dis- tinctively the work of manhood in its ...
... means ; and art is always likest her when it is most inex- plicable . 227 Ruskin Modern Painters . Pt . i . Sec . 2 , Ch . 2 . All art is great , and good , and true , only so far as it is dis- tinctively the work of manhood in its ...
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