Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 4
... already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , em- pire , republic , democracy , are merely the applica- tion of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The ...
... already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , em- pire , republic , democracy , are merely the applica- tion of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The ...
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... already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London ...
... already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London ...
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... already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , when art came to the as- sistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the ...
... already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , when art came to the as- sistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the ...
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... already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organization . Does not the eye of the ...
... already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organization . Does not the eye of the ...
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... Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the light by which ...
... Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the light by which ...
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