Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one ...
... exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one ...
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... exists for the education of each man . There is no age , or state of society , or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat correspond- ing in his life . Everything tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and ...
... exists for the education of each man . There is no age , or state of society , or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat correspond- ing in his life . Everything tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and ...
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... exist in the secreting organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of ...
... exist in the secreting organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of ...
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... exists a boundless liberty of speech . They quarrel for plunder , they wrangle with the generals on each new order , and Xenophon is as sharp - tongued as any , and sharper - tongued than most , and so gives as good as he gets . Who ...
... exists a boundless liberty of speech . They quarrel for plunder , they wrangle with the generals on each new order , and Xenophon is as sharp - tongued as any , and sharper - tongued than most , and so gives as good as he gets . Who ...
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... exists ; but , as a class , from their superior organisation , they have surpassed all . They combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood . The attraction of these manners is that they belong to man ...
... exists ; but , as a class , from their superior organisation , they have surpassed all . They combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood . The attraction of these manners is that they belong to man ...
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