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Page 57
Hence he is impatient with their shortcomings and despises them in his heart . He
is , moreover , not always successful in hiding his feelings towards them ; and the
result is that his contempt is answered with hatred . All this is especially true in ...
Hence he is impatient with their shortcomings and despises them in his heart . He
is , moreover , not always successful in hiding his feelings towards them ; and the
result is that his contempt is answered with hatred . All this is especially true in ...
Page 98
I disapprove your judgment of me as more friendly than accurate ; not that I
consider you unable to judge such things fitly , for you are a man of singular
prudence ; nor that I think you are dissembling , since I well know the sincerity of
your heart ...
I disapprove your judgment of me as more friendly than accurate ; not that I
consider you unable to judge such things fitly , for you are a man of singular
prudence ; nor that I think you are dissembling , since I well know the sincerity of
your heart ...
Page 344
Gone was the spiritual uplift that had gladdened a myriad of anxious hearts ;
gone the mysterious attraction that alone avails to lift up the gaze of the faltering
and hopeless and place it on higher things . And there was nothing to take its
place ...
Gone was the spiritual uplift that had gladdened a myriad of anxious hearts ;
gone the mysterious attraction that alone avails to lift up the gaze of the faltering
and hopeless and place it on higher things . And there was nothing to take its
place ...
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Contents
BIRTH AND PARENTAGE | 3 |
THE LETTER TO GRUNNIUS | 8 |
ANALYSIS OF THE LETTER TO GRUN NIUS | 31 |
Copyright | |
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