Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 11
... , and slights the circum stance . Every chemical substance , every plant , every animal in its growth , teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appearance . Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all - HISTORY . 11 ESSAY.
... , and slights the circum stance . Every chemical substance , every plant , every animal in its growth , teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appearance . Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all - HISTORY . 11 ESSAY.
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... teaches him how Belus was worshipped , and how the Pyramids were built , better than the discov- ery by Champollion of the names of all the work- men and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door ...
... teaches him how Belus was worshipped , and how the Pyramids were built , better than the discov- ery by Champollion of the names of all the work- men and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door ...
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... teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or has heard an eloquent tongue , or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exul- tation or alarm ? No man can antedate his ...
... teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage , or has heard an eloquent tongue , or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exul- tation or alarm ? No man can antedate his ...
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... teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good - hu- mored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side . Else , to - morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have ...
... teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good - hu- mored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side . Else , to - morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have ...
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... teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they communi- cate their virtue or vice only by overt actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions , so ...
... teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they communi- cate their virtue or vice only by overt actions , and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions , so ...
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