Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathise in the great ...
... better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathise in the great ...
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... sometime , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History must be this or it is nothing . Every HISTORY 5.
... sometime , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History must be this or it is nothing . Every HISTORY 5.
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... better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and himself has laid the courses . Again , in that protest which each ...
... better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and himself has laid the courses . Again , in that protest which each ...
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... better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master ...
... better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master ...
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... better , for worse , as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good , no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till . power which resides ...
... better , for worse , as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good , no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till . power which resides ...
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