... if writing lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men ...
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There is a moment in the history of every nation, when ... the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic so that man, at that instant ... with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
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These old shoes are easy to the feet.
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... the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take ... a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me....
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Nature said The sea shall disjoin the people of England from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars ... seafaring ...
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I seem to hear Montaigne say I ... think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet ... the most suitable.
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