Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
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... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
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... becomes subjec- tive ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
... becomes subjec- tive ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
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... becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered ...
... becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered ...
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... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imi- tated in the slender shafts and capitals of his archi- tecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imi- tated in the slender shafts and capitals of his archi- tecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never ...
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