Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has felt he may feel ; what at any time has ...
... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has felt he may feel ; what at any time has ...
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... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion , again it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated ...
... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion , again it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated ...
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... man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental , or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the ...
... man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental , or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the ...
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... man Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder ...
... man Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder ...
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... man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him and ...
... man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him and ...
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