Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... 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 this univer- sal mind is a party ...
... 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 this univer- sal mind is a party ...
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... reason ; all express more or less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable es- sence . Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and ...
... reason ; all express more or less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable es- sence . Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and ...
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... indicates 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.
... indicates 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.
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... reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The ...
... reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The ...
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... reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall ...
... reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall ...
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