Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 8
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
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... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
Page 10
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
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... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
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... experience and verifying them here . All history 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 ...
... experience and verifying them here . All history 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 ...
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