Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 9
... secret impulse of an indi- vidual's character . Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him , for every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else . Therefore just and wise men ...
... secret impulse of an indi- vidual's character . Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him , for every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else . Therefore just and wise men ...
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... secret of the matter who said of love , " All other pleasures are not worth its pains : " and when the day was not long enough , but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections ; when the head boiled all night on the pillow ...
... secret of the matter who said of love , " All other pleasures are not worth its pains : " and when the day was not long enough , but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections ; when the head boiled all night on the pillow ...
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... secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdru- bal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustra- tion of the mind's powers and deprivations as what has befallen us . Each new law and 36 HISTORY .
... secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdru- bal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustra- tion of the mind's powers and deprivations as what has befallen us . Each new law and 36 HISTORY .
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... secret sense , and poet- ry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ...
... secret sense , and poet- ry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ...
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... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private advent- ures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer ...
... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private advent- ures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer ...
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