Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing ...
... universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing ...
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... universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national ...
... universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national ...
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... universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express ...
... universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express ...
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... universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private ...
... universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private ...
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... the design , and by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise . The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a HISTORY 19.
... the design , and by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise . The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a HISTORY 19.
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