Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 5
... secret experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning ...
... secret experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning ...
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... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dot- ted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer ...
... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dot- ted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer ...
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... secret virtues of minerals , of understand- ing the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prow- ess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the ...
... secret virtues of minerals , of understand- ing the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prow- ess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the ...
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... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and ...
... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and ...
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... secret is told , eve- ry crime is punished , every virtue rewarded , every wrong redressed , in silence and certainty . What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears . If you see ...
... secret is told , eve- ry crime is punished , every virtue rewarded , every wrong redressed , in silence and certainty . What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears . If you see ...
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