Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... religious dance before the gods , and , though in convulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus of the genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold repre- sentation : and to ...
... religious dance before the gods , and , though in convulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus of the genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold repre- sentation : and to ...
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... religious injunction , because of the perils of the state from nomadism . And in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities still fight out the old battle , in the nation and in the individual . The nomads ...
... religious injunction , because of the perils of the state from nomadism . And in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities still fight out the old battle , in the nation and in the individual . The nomads ...
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... religion , with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily ...
... religion , with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily ...
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... religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or pediency of one of the institutions of his church . word because the ...
... religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or pediency of one of the institutions of his church . word because the ...
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... religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or for computing our orbit than our past acts , and word because the eyes ...
... religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or for computing our orbit than our past acts , and word because the eyes ...
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