Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the ...
... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the ...
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... feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of ...
... feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ternally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental , or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ternally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental , or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea ...
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... feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir , and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a ...
... feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir , and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a ...
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... , and the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas . What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to HISTORY 13.
... , and the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas . What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to HISTORY 13.
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