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Page 8
... ness and gratitude . February 27 , 1851. - Read over the first book of Emile . I was revolted , contrary to all expectation , for I opened the book with a sort of hunger for style and beauty . I was conscious instead of an impression of ...
... ness and gratitude . February 27 , 1851. - Read over the first book of Emile . I was revolted , contrary to all expectation , for I opened the book with a sort of hunger for style and beauty . I was conscious instead of an impression of ...
Page 49
... ness withdrawing into the shade that it may rest from the burden of thought , and of the tomb , that divine bed , where the soul in its turn rests from life . To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions , to deposit the mud of life ...
... ness withdrawing into the shade that it may rest from the burden of thought , and of the tomb , that divine bed , where the soul in its turn rests from life . To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions , to deposit the mud of life ...
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... ness which will acknowledge no other limit than that of external force . The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history . The history of man is essentially zoological ; it becomes human late in the day , and then only in the ...
... ness which will acknowledge no other limit than that of external force . The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history . The history of man is essentially zoological ; it becomes human late in the day , and then only in the ...
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