Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 2
... relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of ...
... relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of ...
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... relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events ...
... relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events ...
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... relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him , and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the wings of an eagle in ...
... relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him , and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the wings of an eagle in ...
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... , —although it may chance that no one has seen it before me . For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure , that it is profane to seek to interpose SELF - RELIANCE 37.
... , —although it may chance that no one has seen it before me . For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure , that it is profane to seek to interpose SELF - RELIANCE 37.
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... relation to it , -one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and , in the universal_miracle , petty and particular miracles dis- appear . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God ...
... relation to it , -one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and , in the universal_miracle , petty and particular miracles dis- appear . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God ...
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