Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... become 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 ...
... become 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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... becomes subjec- tive ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
... becomes subjec- tive ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
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... becomes fluid and true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never ...
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... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in their senses and in their health , with the finest physical ...
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in their senses and in their health , with the finest physical ...
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... becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one ...
... becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one ...
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