Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 9
... mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life ...
... mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life ...
Page 11
... mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life ...
... mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life ...
Page 15
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , some- time , it will demand and find compensation for that loss , by doing the work itself . Ferguson dis- covered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him ...
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , some- time , it will demand and find compensation for that loss , by doing the work itself . Ferguson dis- covered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him ...
Page 35
... means the im- possibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal ...
... means the im- possibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal ...
Page 36
... mean- est of them glorifies him . See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing . These figures , he would say , these Chirons , Griffins , Phorkyas , Helen and Leda , are somewhat , and do exert a specific in ...
... mean- est of them glorifies him . See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing . These figures , he would say , these Chirons , Griffins , Phorkyas , Helen and Leda , are somewhat , and do exert a specific in ...
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