Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 13
... word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute na- ture , from the mountains and the ...
... word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute na- ture , from the mountains and the ...
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... 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 . What the former age has ...
... 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 . What the former age has ...
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... words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or ...
... words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or ...
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... word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and ...
... word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and ...
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... words and forms of whose influence he was merely the or- gan to the youth . The fact teaches him how Belus was worshipped and how the Pyramids were built , better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the ...
... words and forms of whose influence he was merely the or- gan to the youth . The fact teaches him how Belus was worshipped and how the Pyramids were built , better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the ...
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