Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 7
... individual valor , with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford re- quires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence . But if we explore the literature ...
... individual valor , with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford re- quires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence . But if we explore the literature ...
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... individual nature . Never- theless we must profoundly revere it . There is somewhat in great actions which does not allow us to go behind them . Heroism feels and never reasons , and therefore is always right ; and although a different ...
... individual nature . Never- theless we must profoundly revere it . There is somewhat in great actions which does not allow us to go behind them . Heroism feels and never reasons , and therefore is always right ; and although a different ...
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... individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions ...
... individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions ...
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... individuals the fixed species ; through many species the genus ; through all genera the steadfast type ; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same . She ...
... individuals the fixed species ; through many species the genus ; through all genera the steadfast type ; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same . She ...
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... individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is re- lated to us , nothing that does not interest us , -kingdom , college , tree , horse , or iron shoe , the roots of all things are in man . It is in the soul that ...
... individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is re- lated to us , nothing that does not interest us , -kingdom , college , tree , horse , or iron shoe , the roots of all things are in man . It is in the soul that ...
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