Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 5
... ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons ...
... ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons ...
Page 6
... ourselves in that place would have done or applauded . We have the same interest in condition and char- acter . We honor the rich , because they have ex- ternally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man ...
... ourselves in that place would have done or applauded . We have the same interest in condition and char- acter . We honor the rich , because they have ex- ternally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man ...
Page 9
... a fact in human na- ture ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before HISTORY . 9.
... a fact in human na- ture ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before HISTORY . 9.
Page 11
... ourselves to find it not in our man . the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We re- member the forest - dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to the first type , and the ...
... ourselves to find it not in our man . the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We re- member the forest - dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to the first type , and the ...
Page 17
... ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes . The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin ...
... ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes . The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin ...
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