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Page 9
... fact in human na- ture ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before HISTORY . 9.
... fact in human na- ture ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before HISTORY . 9.
Page 40
... ture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of 40 ESSAY II .
... ture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of 40 ESSAY II .
Page 56
... ture , and forget that we have shared their cause . Here is the fountain of action and of thought . Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wis- dom , and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism . We lie in ...
... ture , and forget that we have shared their cause . Here is the fountain of action and of thought . Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wis- dom , and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism . We lie in ...
Page 57
... ture , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it ...
... ture , time , souls , from the centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it ...
Page 90
... ture . Every thing is made of one hidden stuff ; as the naturalist sees one type under every metamor- phosis , and regards a horse as a running man , a fish as a swimming man , a bird as a flying man , a tree as a rooted man . Each new ...
... ture . Every thing is made of one hidden stuff ; as the naturalist sees one type under every metamor- phosis , and regards a horse as a running man , a fish as a swimming man , a bird as a flying man , a tree as a rooted man . Each new ...
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