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Page 15
Besides there is a peculiar pleasure in a true response ; it is the assurance of
equipoise in the universe . These , if not true critics , come nearer the standard
than the subjective class , and the value of their work is ideal as well as historical
.
Besides there is a peculiar pleasure in a true response ; it is the assurance of
equipoise in the universe . These , if not true critics , come nearer the standard
than the subjective class , and the value of their work is ideal as well as historical
.
Page 18
Surely they may be redeemed from their abuses , they may be turned to their true
uses . But how ? . It were easy to say what they should not do . They should not
have an object to carry or a cause to advocate , which obliges them either to ...
Surely they may be redeemed from their abuses , they may be turned to their true
uses . But how ? . It were easy to say what they should not do . They should not
have an object to carry or a cause to advocate , which obliges them either to ...
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the world , calculating the effect to be produced by each of his smooth sentences
, to some earnest voice which is uttering thoughts , crude , rash , ill - arranged it
may be , but true to one human breast , and uttered in full faith , that the God of ...
the world , calculating the effect to be produced by each of his smooth sentences
, to some earnest voice which is uttering thoughts , crude , rash , ill - arranged it
may be , but true to one human breast , and uttered in full faith , that the God of ...
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Whatever is good could not be otherwise than it is . Why will you not take what
suits you , and leave the rest ? True communion of thought is worship , not
criticism . Spirit will not flow through the sluices nor endure the locks of canals .
Critic .
Whatever is good could not be otherwise than it is . Why will you not take what
suits you , and leave the rest ? True communion of thought is worship , not
criticism . Spirit will not flow through the sluices nor endure the locks of canals .
Critic .
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This , how strange soever it may seem , I protest before the Eternal God , is true ;
neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein , since I did not only clearly
hear the noise , but in the serenest sky that ever I saw , being without all cloud ...
This , how strange soever it may seem , I protest before the Eternal God , is true ;
neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein , since I did not only clearly
hear the noise , but in the serenest sky that ever I saw , being without all cloud ...
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| Title | Art, Literature, and the Drama |
| Author | Margaret Fuller |
| Editor | Arthur Buckminster Fuller |
| Publisher | Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1860 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 25 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 449 pages |
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