Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... causes that have sharpened his percep- tions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse . It is a fact often observed , that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion , who cannot write well under any other ...
... causes that have sharpened his percep- tions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse . It is a fact often observed , that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion , who cannot write well under any other ...
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... cause of the beauty . If however , from too much conversing with material objects , the soul was gross , and mis- placed its satisfaction in the body , it reaped nothing but sorrow ; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty ...
... cause of the beauty . If however , from too much conversing with material objects , the soul was gross , and mis- placed its satisfaction in the body , it reaped nothing but sorrow ; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty ...
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... are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws . Neighborhood , size , numbers , habits , persons , lose by degrees their power over us . Cause and effect , real affinities , the longing for har- LOVE . 29.
... are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws . Neighborhood , size , numbers , habits , persons , lose by degrees their power over us . Cause and effect , real affinities , the longing for har- LOVE . 29.
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... cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface dif- ferences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events ...
... cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface dif- ferences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events ...
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... cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character . See the variety of the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus ...
... cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character . See the variety of the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus ...
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