Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by colour and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by colour and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
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... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest , which at 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 ...
... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest , which at 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 ...
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... seen without heed . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them sus- pended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward ; a thought which ...
... seen without heed . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them sus- pended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward ; a thought which ...
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... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall , which ...
... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall , which ...
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... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel ...
... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel ...
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