Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will , but pleasantly and as it were merrily he advances to his own music , alike in fright- ful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness 8 HEROISM .
... a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will , but pleasantly and as it were merrily he advances to his own music , alike in fright- ful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness 8 HEROISM .
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... universal dissoluteness . There is somewhat not philo . sophical in heroism ; there is somewhat not holy in it ; it seems not to know that other souls are of one texture with it ; it hath pride ; it is the extreme of individual nature ...
... universal dissoluteness . There is somewhat not philo . sophical in heroism ; there is somewhat not holy in it ; it seems not to know that other souls are of one texture with it ; it hath pride ; it is the extreme of individual nature ...
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... universal heart of all , and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flame . It matters not therefore whether we attempt to describe the passion at twenty , at thirty , or at eighty years . He who paints it at the ...
... universal heart of all , and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flame . It matters not therefore whether we attempt to describe the passion at twenty , at thirty , or at eighty years . He who paints it at the ...
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... universal aims . The soul which is in the soul of each , craving for a perfect beatitude , de- tects incongruities , defects and disproportion in the behavior of the other . Hence arise surprise , expostulation and pain . Yet that which ...
... universal aims . The soul which is in the soul of each , craving for a perfect beatitude , de- tects incongruities , defects and disproportion in the behavior of the other . Hence arise surprise , expostulation and pain . Yet that which ...
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... universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the en- tire series of days . Man is explicable by ...
... universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the en- tire series of days . Man is explicable by ...
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