Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 12
... child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the monad ...
... child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the monad ...
Page 15
... child by studying the outlines of its form merely , - but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature ...
... child by studying the outlines of its form merely , - but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature ...
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... children . They made vases , tragedies , and stat- ues , such as healthy senses should , - that is , in good taste ... child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteris- tics . A person of childlike genius ...
... children . They made vases , tragedies , and stat- ues , such as healthy senses should , - that is , in good taste ... child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteris- tics . A person of childlike genius ...
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... the individual's private life . The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and Th - that without producing indignation , but only fear and HISTORY . 25.
... the individual's private life . The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and Th - that without producing indignation , but only fear and HISTORY . 25.
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... child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppres- sor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose in- fluence he was merely the organ to the youth . The fact teaches him how ...
... child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppres- sor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose in- fluence he was merely the organ to the youth . The fact teaches him how ...
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