Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than ...
... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than ...
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... mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and ...
... mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and ...
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... mind . 6 I We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind ...
... mind . 6 I We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind ...
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... mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the ...
... mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the ...
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... mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temper- ance itself , limited to the straight ...
... mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temper- ance itself , limited to the straight ...
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