Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakespeare's strain . THERE is one mind 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 ...
... hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakespeare's strain . THERE is one mind 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 ...
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... hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall , which obviously gave the idea of the common architec- tural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent ...
... hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall , which obviously gave the idea of the common architec- tural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent ...
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... hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions . Everything the individual sees without him ...
... hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions . Everything the individual sees without him ...
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... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prome- theus ! Beside its ...
... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prome- theus ! Beside its ...
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... , and by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise . The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a HISTORY 19.
... , and by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise . The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a HISTORY 19.
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