Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to par- ticular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to par- ticular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
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... person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which his ...
... person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which his ...
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... person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with ...
... person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with ...
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... persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their ...
... persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their ...
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... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant ... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of HISTORY . 23.
... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant ... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of HISTORY . 23.
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