Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... thought he may think ; what a saint has felt he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man he can understand ... thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in B appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to HISTORY.
... thought he may think ; what a saint has felt he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man he can understand ... thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in B appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to HISTORY.
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... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion , again it will solve the problem of the age . The ...
... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion , again it will solve the problem of the age . The ...
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... thought lives along the whole line of temples , and sphinxes , and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done ...
... thought lives along the whole line of temples , and sphinxes , and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done ...
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... thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius ...
... thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius ...
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... thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep ...
... thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep ...
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