Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... 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 befallen any man he can understand . Who hath access to this ...
... 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 befallen any man he can understand . Who hath access to this ...
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... once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion , again it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or in- telligible . We as we read must become Greeks ...
... once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion , again it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or in- telligible . We as we read must become Greeks ...
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... once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temper- ance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , -a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the tongue on the balance of expression , ' a multitude ...
... once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temper- ance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , -a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the tongue on the balance of expression , ' a multitude ...
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... once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendour as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the ...
... once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendour as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the ...
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... once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted ...
... once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted ...
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