Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... truth to which that fact or series belongs . The primeval world - the Fore - World , as the Ger- mans say I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs , libraries , and the broken reliefs and ...
... truth to which that fact or series belongs . The primeval world - the Fore - World , as the Ger- mans say I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs , libraries , and the broken reliefs and ...
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... truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one , why should I measure degrees of ...
... truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one , why should I measure degrees of ...
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... 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 facts in nature . I see that men of God have , from time to time , walked ...
... 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 facts in nature . I see that men of God have , from time to time , walked ...
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... truth finds like them new perils to virtue . He learns again what moral vigour is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world ...
... truth finds like them new perils to virtue . He learns again what moral vigour is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world ...
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... truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him ...
... truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him ...
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