Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in B appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to HISTORY.
... his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in B appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to HISTORY.
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... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life ...
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life ...
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... Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable ...
... Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable ...
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... 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 , before ...
... 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 , before ...
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... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to ...
... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to ...
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