Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and execu- tioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and execu- tioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
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... Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national ...
... Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national ...
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... manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the the books of all ages . 14 ESSAY 1 .
... manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the the books of all ages . 14 ESSAY 1 .
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... Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By ...
... Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By ...
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... Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? What but this , that every man passes personally ...
... Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? What but this , that every man passes personally ...
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