Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades ...
... actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades ...
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... action in history , to which there is not somewhat correspond- ing in his life . Everything tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person ...
... action in history , to which there is not somewhat correspond- ing in his life . Everything tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person ...
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... action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods ... actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a ...
... action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods ... actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a ...
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... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ...
... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ...
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... actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Ĉivil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from ...
... actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Ĉivil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from ...
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