Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... heaven an im- mortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . What is history , ' said Napoleon , but a fable agreed upon ? ' This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War , Colonisation ...
... heaven an im- mortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . What is history , ' said Napoleon , but a fable agreed upon ? ' This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War , Colonisation ...
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... heaven - facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to ...
... heaven - facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to ...
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... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact ...
... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact ...
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... heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see , -how you can see ; ' It must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' They do not yet perceive , that light ...
... heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see , -how you can see ; ' It must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' They do not yet perceive , that light ...
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... heaven should transgress his path , they would punish him . The poets related that stone walls , and iron swords , and leathern thongs , had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners ; that the belt which Ajax gave Hector ...
... heaven should transgress his path , they would punish him . The poets related that stone walls , and iron swords , and leathern thongs , had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners ; that the belt which Ajax gave Hector ...
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