Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in B appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to HISTORY.
... history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in B appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to HISTORY.
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... spirit to the manifold world . Each This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
... spirit to the manifold world . Each This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
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... She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit 7 bends all things to its own will . The adamant HISTORY 7.
... She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit 7 bends all things to its own will . The adamant HISTORY 7.
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... common origin of very diverse works . It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of HISTORY.
... common origin of very diverse works . It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of HISTORY.
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... spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his waggon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he sleeps as warm , dines with as good appetite , and associates ...
... spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his waggon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he sleeps as warm , dines with as good appetite , and associates ...
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