EssaysNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
... Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
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... Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
... Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
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... Plato , and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men , but what they , thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the ...
... Plato , and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men , but what they , thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the ...
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