Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 21
... truth to which that fact or series be- longs . ― The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs , libraries , and the broken reliefs ...
... truth to which that fact or series be- longs . ― The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs , libraries , and the broken reliefs ...
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... truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one , why should I measure degrees of ...
... truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one , why should I measure degrees of ...
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... truth finds like them new perils to virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licen- tiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world ...
... truth finds like them new perils to virtue . He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licen- tiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world ...
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... truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him ...
... truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him ...
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... truth is handsomer than the affectation of love . Your goodness must have some edge to it , - else it is none . The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines . I shun ...
... truth is handsomer than the affectation of love . Your goodness must have some edge to it , - else it is none . The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines . I shun ...
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