Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 10
... Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folċ already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , can kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are mer the application of his manifold spirit to the mɛ ifold world . This human mind wrote history ...
... Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folċ already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , can kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are mer the application of his manifold spirit to the mɛ ifold world . This human mind wrote history ...
Page 14
... Rome and Athens and London , to himself , and not deny his conviction that he is the court , and if England or Egypt have any thing to say to him he will try the case ; if not , let them forever be silent . He must attain and maintain ...
... Rome and Athens and London , to himself , and not deny his conviction that he is the court , and if England or Egypt have any thing to say to him he will try the case ; if not , let them forever be silent . He must attain and maintain ...
Page 38
... whole chain of organic and inorganic being . In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north , south , east , west , to the centre of every prov ince of the empire , making each market - town 38 HISTORY .
... whole chain of organic and inorganic being . In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north , south , east , west , to the centre of every prov ince of the empire , making each market - town 38 HISTORY .
Page 42
... Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople ! What does Rome know of rat and lizard ? What are Olympiads and Consu- lates to these neighboring systems of being ? Nay , what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal ...
... Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople ! What does Rome know of rat and lizard ? What are Olympiads and Consu- lates to these neighboring systems of being ? Nay , what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal ...
Page 62
... Rome ; " and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons . Let a man then know his worth , and keep things under his feet . Let him not peep or steal , or skulk up and down with the air ...
... Rome ; " and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons . Let a man then know his worth , and keep things under his feet . Let him not peep or steal , or skulk up and down with the air ...
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