Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme ...
... things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme ...
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... thing to say to him , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their se- cret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the ...
... thing to say to him , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their se- cret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the ...
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... things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History must be this or it is nothing . Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human na- ture ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary ...
... things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History must be this or it is nothing . Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human na- ture ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary ...
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... things are ' friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum stance . Every chemical substance , every plant , every animal in its growth ...
... things are ' friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum stance . Every chemical substance , every plant , every animal in its growth ...
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... things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the ...
... things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the ...
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