Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... common to all individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has ...
... common to all individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has ...
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... common origin of very diverse works . It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of HISTORY.
... common origin of very diverse works . It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of HISTORY.
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... common souls pay with what they do - nobler souls with that which they are . ' And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of ...
... common souls pay with what they do - nobler souls with that which they are . ' And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of ...
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... common architec- tural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we see how each people merely 6 decorated its primitive abodes ...
... common architec- tural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we see how each people merely 6 decorated its primitive abodes ...
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... common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both ; the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred , and Scanderbeg , and Gustavus ? Suppose they were virtuous ; did they wear out virtue ? As great a ...
... common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both ; the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred , and Scanderbeg , and Gustavus ? Suppose they were virtuous ; did they wear out virtue ? As great a ...
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