Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of Michigan |
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... GIRL WHO WOULD EDUCATE HERSELF DESCRIPTION AMERICAN MANNERS John Corbin . William James 220 Woodrow Wilson 230 Charles Mills Gayley Alexander Meiklejohn 249C 276 Le Baron Russell Briggs 300 John Russell Taylor · 311 Wu Tingfang 327 ...
... GIRL WHO WOULD EDUCATE HERSELF DESCRIPTION AMERICAN MANNERS John Corbin . William James 220 Woodrow Wilson 230 Charles Mills Gayley Alexander Meiklejohn 249C 276 Le Baron Russell Briggs 300 John Russell Taylor · 311 Wu Tingfang 327 ...
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... girl who had ferried me over the Severn , standing up in a boat between me and the twilight ; at other times I might mention luxuriating in books , with a peculiar interest in this way , as I remember sitting up half the night to read ...
... girl who had ferried me over the Severn , standing up in a boat between me and the twilight ; at other times I might mention luxuriating in books , with a peculiar interest in this way , as I remember sitting up half the night to read ...
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... be a stranger in a thousand particulars that he may come near in the holiest ground . Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property and to suck a short and all - confounding pleasure instead of I 12 Ralph Waldo Emerson.
... be a stranger in a thousand particulars that he may come near in the holiest ground . Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property and to suck a short and all - confounding pleasure instead of I 12 Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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... girl , with the golden hair and the soft eyes , what do you like ? " " My canary , and a run among the wood hyacinths . " " You , little boy with the head , what do you like ? " game at pitch farthing . " What more need we ask ? dirty ...
... girl , with the golden hair and the soft eyes , what do you like ? " " My canary , and a run among the wood hyacinths . " " You , little boy with the head , what do you like ? " game at pitch farthing . " What more need we ask ? dirty ...
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... girls ; but now the pipe is smoked out , the snuff - box empty , and my gentleman sits bolt upright upon a bench , with lamentable eyes . This does not appeal to me as being Success in Life . But it is not only the person himself who ...
... girls ; but now the pipe is smoked out , the snuff - box empty , and my gentleman sits bolt upright upon a bench , with lamentable eyes . This does not appeal to me as being Success in Life . But it is not only the person himself who ...
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Page 131 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Page 149 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 80 - Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else; it takes place of the whole creation. The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent.
Page 138 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...
Page 4 - A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body ; and it is not much otherwise in the mind.
Page 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 4 - ... whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
Page 28 - ... owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, "that would be foolish, indeed.
Page 10 - Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart ; the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him ; so that a man hath, as it were, two lives in his desires.
Page 76 - the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation.