Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 61
... and Immortality ? Yet every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities , and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called His- HISTORY . 61.
... and Immortality ? Yet every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities , and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called His- HISTORY . 61.
Page 76
... symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man . The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king , the noble , or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own , make his own scale of men and ...
... symbol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man . The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king , the noble , or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own , make his own scale of men and ...
Page 132
... symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and other minds . What attracts my atten- tion shall have it , as I will go to 132 ...
... symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and other minds . What attracts my atten- tion shall have it , as I will go to 132 ...
Page 158
... symbol of truth he had , he did certainly show him . But to most of us society shows not its face and eye , but its side and its back To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity , is it not ? We can ...
... symbol of truth he had , he did certainly show him . But to most of us society shows not its face and eye , but its side and its back To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity , is it not ? We can ...
Page 170
... symbol , esteem- ing health and wealth a final good . Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol , as the poet and artist , and the naturalist and man of science . A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to ...
... symbol , esteem- ing health and wealth a final good . Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol , as the poet and artist , and the naturalist and man of science . A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to ...
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