Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... 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 laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
... 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 laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
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... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it 4 ESSAY 1 .
... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it 4 ESSAY 1 .
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... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us ...
... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us ...
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... thought , and , far back in the womb of 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 ...
... thought , and , far back in the womb of 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 ...
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... thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep ...
... thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep ...
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