Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 7
... eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle ...
... eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle ...
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... eternal flower , with the lightness and delicate finish , as well as the aerial proportions and perspective , of vegetable beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individua- lised , all private facts are to be generalised ...
... eternal flower , with the lightness and delicate finish , as well as the aerial proportions and perspective , of vegetable beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individua- lised , all private facts are to be generalised ...
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... Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily ...
... Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily ...
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... eternal entities , as real to - day as in the first Olympiad . Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humour , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it ...
... eternal entities , as real to - day as in the first Olympiad . Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humour , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it ...
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... hope . In the hour of vision , there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation , perceives the self - existence of SELF - RELIANCE 39.
... hope . In the hour of vision , there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation , perceives the self - existence of SELF - RELIANCE 39.
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