Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to ...
... universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to ...
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... universal nature which gives worth to par- ticular men and 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 ...
... universal nature which gives worth to par- ticular men and 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 ...
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... Universal history , the poets , the ro- mancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that ...
... Universal history , the poets , the ro- mancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that ...
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... universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dot- ted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private ...
... universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dot- ted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private ...
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... universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that ...
... universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that ...
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