Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... less than all 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 ...
... less than all 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 ...
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... less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable essence . Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combina- tions ...
... less dis- tinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable essence . Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combina- tions ...
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... less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his waggon , and roams through all latitudes ...
... less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his waggon , and roams through all latitudes ...
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... less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the gods come among men they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shake- speare were not . Antæus was ...
... less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the gods come among men they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shake- speare were not . Antæus was ...
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... always beautiful and always liable to calamity in this world . But along with the civil and metaphysical history of man , another history goes daily forward - that of the external world - in which he is not less strictly 20 EMERSON'S ...
... always beautiful and always liable to calamity in this world . But along with the civil and metaphysical history of man , another history goes daily forward - that of the external world - in which he is not less strictly 20 EMERSON'S ...
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