Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 7
... same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit 7 bends all things to its own will . The adamant HISTORY 7.
... same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit 7 bends all things to its own will . The adamant HISTORY 7.
Page 17
... moral vigour is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his ...
... moral vigour is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his ...
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... morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man , -perhaps older , these creatures have kept their counsel beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other . What ...
... morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man , -perhaps older , these creatures have kept their counsel beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other . What ...
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... moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion , and ...
... moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion , and ...
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... moral . That soul , which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law . We feel its inspiration ; out there in history we can see its fatal strength . It is in the world , and the world was made by it . ' Justice is not postponed ...
... moral . That soul , which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law . We feel its inspiration ; out there in history we can see its fatal strength . It is in the world , and the world was made by it . ' Justice is not postponed ...
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