Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always ...
... less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always ...
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... less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable es- sence . Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combi ...
... less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable es- sence . Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combi ...
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... less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his wagon , and roams through all latitudes ...
... less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his wagon , and roams through all latitudes ...
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... less true to all time are the details of that stately ap- ologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shak- speare were not . Antæus was ...
... less true to all time are the details of that stately ap- ologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shak- speare were not . Antæus was ...
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... less strictly implicated . He is the compend of time ; His power - he is also the correlative of nature . consists in the multitude of his affinities , in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and ...
... less strictly implicated . He is the compend of time ; His power - he is also the correlative of nature . consists in the multitude of his affinities , in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and ...
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