Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
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... genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a ...
... genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a ...
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... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words ...
... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words ...
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... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young 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 ...
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young 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 ...
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... genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind ...
... genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind ...
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