Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and ...
... seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and ...
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... Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems the self - defence HISTORY . 27.
... Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems the self - defence HISTORY . 27.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. objective form , and which seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. objective form , and which seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would ...
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... seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain ...
... seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain ...
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... seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold , then , he will know how to make us seniors very unneces- sary . The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a din- ner , and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ...
... seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold , then , he will know how to make us seniors very unneces- sary . The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a din- ner , and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ...
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