Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the man- ifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The ...
... already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the man- ifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The ...
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... already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the man- ifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The ...
... already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the man- ifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The ...
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... already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris was , when we have made a constellation ...
... already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris was , when we have made a constellation ...
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... already prepared by nature , the eye was ac- customed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual ...
... already prepared by nature , the eye was ac- customed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual ...
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... already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organization . Does not the eye of the ...
... already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organization . Does not the eye of the ...
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