Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 25
... Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and anchorets without crossing seas or centuries . More than once some individual has ...
... Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and anchorets without crossing seas or centuries . More than once some individual has ...
Page 28
... Socrates and Shak- speare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth , his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant , and , in all his weakness , both his body and his ...
... Socrates and Shak- speare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth , his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant , and , in all his weakness , both his body and his ...
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... Socrates , and Jesus , and Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . - I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of ...
... Socrates , and Jesus , and Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . - I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of ...
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... Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and , in his turn , the founder of a sect . The arts and ...
... Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and , in his turn , the founder of a sect . The arts and ...
Page 233
... Socrates's condemnation of him- " Jul . Why , slaves , ' t is in our power to hang ye . Very likely , Master . ' T is in our powers , then , to be hanged , and scorn ye . " These replies are sound and whole . Sport is the bloom and glow ...
... Socrates's condemnation of him- " Jul . Why , slaves , ' t is in our power to hang ye . Very likely , Master . ' T is in our powers , then , to be hanged , and scorn ye . " These replies are sound and whole . Sport is the bloom and glow ...
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