Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding . Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . hums the ...
... sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding . Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . hums the ...
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... sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth , through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new ...
... sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth , through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new ...
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... sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of ...
... sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of ...
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... sentiment of the powers of science . The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of sub- duing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of ...
... sentiment of the powers of science . The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of sub- duing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of ...
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... sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction ...
... sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction ...
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