Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for ...
... secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for ...
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... secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ...
... secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ...
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... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of ...
... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of ...
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... secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavour ...
... secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavour ...
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... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide : him all tongues greet , all honours crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him ...
... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide : him all tongues greet , all honours crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him ...
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