Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece ... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
... man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece ... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
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... man , Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's ...
... man , Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's ...
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... man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better , for worse , as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good , no kernel of ...
... man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better , for worse , as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good , no kernel of ...
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... man's relation to the Highest . Such is Calvinism , Qua- kerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new ter- minology , as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and ...
... man's relation to the Highest . Such is Calvinism , Qua- kerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new ter- minology , as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and ...
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... balls That hurry through the eternal halls , A makeweight flying to the void , Supplemental asteroid , Or compensatory spark , Shoots across the neutral Dark . 6 Man's the elm , and Wealth the vine ; Stanch COMPENSATION.
... balls That hurry through the eternal halls , A makeweight flying to the void , Supplemental asteroid , Or compensatory spark , Shoots across the neutral Dark . 6 Man's the elm , and Wealth the vine ; Stanch COMPENSATION.
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