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... ; strengthen faith or enkindle hope ; deepen or multiply the sense of truth , beauty , and right , whence all true manliness is fed . Sincerely yours , A. H. W. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. DEDICATION PROLOGUE . LIST OF AUTHORITIES iii DEDICATION.
... ; strengthen faith or enkindle hope ; deepen or multiply the sense of truth , beauty , and right , whence all true manliness is fed . Sincerely yours , A. H. W. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. DEDICATION PROLOGUE . LIST OF AUTHORITIES iii DEDICATION.
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... Beauty pleased rather than exalted him . Nature was pretty rather than grand mystical . Love was a pastime rather than a devotion . Woman impressed him less by any spiritual transcendence than by a ' vastly becoming smile , ' a ' sweet ...
... Beauty pleased rather than exalted him . Nature was pretty rather than grand mystical . Love was a pastime rather than a devotion . Woman impressed him less by any spiritual transcendence than by a ' vastly becoming smile , ' a ' sweet ...
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... beauty , grace , gentleness , the longings , joys , and tears of love , is incarnated in Friday . Sæter , an obscure water - deity , represented as standing upon a fish , with a bucket in his hand , is commemorated in Saturday . But ...
... beauty , grace , gentleness , the longings , joys , and tears of love , is incarnated in Friday . Sæter , an obscure water - deity , represented as standing upon a fish , with a bucket in his hand , is commemorated in Saturday . But ...
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... beauty in death . The coward is drowned in the mud under a hurdle , or is immolated . The true home - life , out of which are the issues of national life , is foreshadowed by the respect with which woman is treated . She inherits ...
... beauty in death . The coward is drowned in the mud under a hurdle , or is immolated . The true home - life , out of which are the issues of national life , is foreshadowed by the respect with which woman is treated . She inherits ...
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... beauty . When first the infant is moved to express itself to others , it does so by motions or natural cries , then by simple words of one syllable — very few in number , for its ideas are few - progressing slowly in its powers of ...
... beauty . When first the infant is moved to express itself to others , it does so by motions or natural cries , then by simple words of one syllable — very few in number , for its ideas are few - progressing slowly in its powers of ...
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