Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power.
... to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power.
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... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , SO the hours should be instructed by the ages , and ...
... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , SO the hours should be instructed by the ages , and ...
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... nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs ...
... nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs ...
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... nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre ...
... nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre ...
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... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
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