Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 35
... thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
... thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
Page 36
... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age . The ...
... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age . The ...
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... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us ...
... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us ...
Page 42
... thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that di- verge , ere they fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature ...
... thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that di- verge , ere they fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature ...
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... What is Guido's Ros- pigliosi Aurora but a morning thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain 44 HISTORY .
... What is Guido's Ros- pigliosi Aurora but a morning thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain 44 HISTORY .
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