Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to ...
... fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to ...
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... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combina- tions . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for ...
... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combina- tions . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for ...
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... fact and circum- stance - in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep ...
... fact and circum- stance - in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep ...
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... fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was ...
... fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was ...
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... fact in human nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact - see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon ...
... fact in human nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact - see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon ...
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