Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as ...
... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as ...
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... spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
... spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
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... spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny ...
... spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny ...
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... spirit and not the fact that is iden- tical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity . It has been said ...
... spirit and not the fact that is iden- tical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity . It has been said ...
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... spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his wagon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he sleeps as warm , dines with as good appetite , nd associates ...
... spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his wagon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he sleeps as warm , dines with as good appetite , nd associates ...
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