Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 4
... tion of his manifold 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 ...
... tion of his manifold 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 ...
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... 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 in a HISTORY . 7.
... 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 in a HISTORY . 7.
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... tion with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to sol- id nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus . The phi- losophical perception of identity through endless mu- tations of form ...
... tion with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to sol- id nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus . The phi- losophical perception of identity through endless mu- tations of form ...
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... tion , no hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place the divine providence has found for you , the society of your contemporaries , the connection of events . Great men have always done so , and ...
... tion , no hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place the divine providence has found for you , the society of your contemporaries , the connection of events . Great men have always done so , and ...
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... tion , as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he . I am ashamed to think how easily we capitu- late to badges and names , to large societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well - spoken individ- ual affects and sways ...
... tion , as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he . I am ashamed to think how easily we capitu- late to badges and names , to large societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well - spoken individ- ual affects and sways ...
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