Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... reasons , and therefore is always right ; and although a different breeding , dif- ferent religion and greater intellectual activ- ity would have modified or even reversed the particular action , yet for the hero that thing he does is ...
... reasons , and therefore is always right ; and although a different breeding , dif- ferent religion and greater intellectual activ- ity would have modified or even reversed the particular action , yet for the hero that thing he does is ...
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... reason , and was told that the house had not been shut , night or day , for a hundred years . Strangers may present themselves at any hour and in what- ever number ; the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their ...
... reason , and was told that the house had not been shut , night or day , for a hundred years . Strangers may present themselves at any hour and in what- ever number ; the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their ...
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... reason the lover sees never personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others . His friends find in her a likeness to her mother , or her sisters , or to persons not of her blood . The lover sees no resemblance except to ...
... reason the lover sees never personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others . His friends find in her a likeness to her mother , or her sisters , or to persons not of her blood . The lover sees no resemblance except to ...
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... reason is made a free- man of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party ...
... reason is made a free- man of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party ...
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... reason ; all express at last reverence for some command of this supreme , illimitable essence . Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide and ...
... reason ; all express at last reverence for some command of this supreme , illimitable essence . Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide and ...
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