Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 7
... what he is doing to- day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of ac- tion in history , to which there is not somewhat cor- responding in his life . Every thing tends in a HISTORY .
... what he is doing to- day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of ac- tion in history , to which there is not somewhat cor- responding in his life . Every thing tends in a HISTORY .
Page 22
... an axe , began to split wood ; whereupon others rose and did the like . " Throughout his army exists a boundless liberty of speech . They quarrel for plunder , they wrangle with the generals on each new order , and Xenophon 22 ESSAY I.
... an axe , began to split wood ; whereupon others rose and did the like . " Throughout his army exists a boundless liberty of speech . They quarrel for plunder , they wrangle with the generals on each new order , and Xenophon 22 ESSAY I.
Page 28
... exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him , and independent of him . The Pro- metheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not ...
... exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him , and independent of him . The Pro- metheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not ...
Page 32
... exists , or the wings of an eagle in the egg presup- pose air . He cannot live without a world . Napoleon in an island prison , let his faculties find no men to act on , no Alps to climb , no stake to Put play for , and he would beat ...
... exists , or the wings of an eagle in the egg presup- pose air . He cannot live without a world . Napoleon in an island prison , let his faculties find no men to act on , no Alps to climb , no stake to Put play for , and he would beat ...
Page 36
... 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 nature is to be read ...
... 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 nature is to be read ...
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