Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 7
... sense than what he is doing to- day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of ac- tion in history , to which there is not somewhat cor- responding in his life . Every thing tends ...
... sense than what he is doing to- day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of ac- tion in history , to which there is not somewhat cor- responding in his life . Every thing tends ...
Page 8
... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
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... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peri- style of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Pho- cion ? : Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a ...
... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peri- style of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Pho- cion ? : Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a ...
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... but this , that every man passes personally through a Grecian pe- riod . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . HISTORY . 21.
... but this , that every man passes personally through a Grecian pe- riod . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . HISTORY . 21.
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... sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our ... senses and in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity and ...
... sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our ... senses and in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity and ...
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