Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have , from time to time , walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence , evidently , the ...
... come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have , from time to time , walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence , evidently , the ...
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... comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the ...
... comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the ...
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... come , all putting ques- tions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
... come , all putting ques- tions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
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... come back to us with a certain alienated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good- humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry ...
... come back to us with a certain alienated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good- humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry ...
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... comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest : have that grace ; and never varnish your hard , un- charitable ambition with ...
... comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest : have that grace ; and never varnish your hard , un- charitable ambition with ...
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