Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to ...
... once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to ...
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... was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it 4 ESSAY 1 .
... was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it 4 ESSAY 1 .
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... once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , — a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression , " a ...
... once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , — a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression , " a ...
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... once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the ...
... once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the ...
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... once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted ...
... once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted ...
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