Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the ...
... live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the ...
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... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomised into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will ...
... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomised into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will ...
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... lives along the whole line of temples , and sphinxes , and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us ...
... lives along the whole line of temples , and sphinxes , and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us ...
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... lives in his waggon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he sleeps as warm , dines with as good appetite , and associates as happily , as beside his own chimneys . Or ...
... lives in his waggon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he sleeps as warm , dines with as good appetite , and associates as happily , as beside his own chimneys . Or ...
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... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . are mine as much ...
... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . are mine as much ...
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