Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface dif ...
... objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface dif ...
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... nd associates as happily , as beside his own chim- eys . Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated , in the increased range of his faculties of observation , which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet 20 ESSAY 1 .
... nd associates as happily , as beside his own chim- eys . Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated , in the increased range of his faculties of observation , which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet 20 ESSAY 1 .
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... objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the ele- ments of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign ...
... objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the ele- ments of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign ...
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... object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man .. A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to na- tures out of him , and predict the world he is to in ...
... object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man .. A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to na- tures out of him , and predict the world he is to in ...
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... object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it ...
... object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it ...
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