Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... moral laws , and often viola- tion on violation to breed such compound misery . A lockjaw that bends a man's head back to his heels ; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes ; insanity that makes him eat grass ; war ...
... moral laws , and often viola- tion on violation to breed such compound misery . A lockjaw that bends a man's head back to his heels ; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes ; insanity that makes him eat grass ; war ...
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... kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . 42 HISTORY .
... kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . 42 HISTORY .
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... moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the brute- ness and toughness of matter . Alone omnip- otent , it converts all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , but whilst I look at it its ...
... moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the brute- ness and toughness of matter . Alone omnip- otent , it converts all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , but whilst I look at it its ...
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... moral thing : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Pho- cion ? Yet do these varied external expres- sions proceed from one national mind ...
... moral thing : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Pho- cion ? Yet do these varied external expres- sions proceed from one national mind ...
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... moral vigor is needed to supply the gridle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a refor- mation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his ...
... moral vigor is needed to supply the gridle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a refor- mation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his ...
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