Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the ...
... virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the ...
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... virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these char- acteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I admire ...
... virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these char- acteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I admire ...
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... 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 has the Luther of the day had 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 has the Luther of the day had to ...
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... virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavour of the ...
... virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavour of the ...
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... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
... virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist . He who would gather immortal palms must not be ...
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