Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 9
... . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time.
... . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time.
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... circumstance , in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute na- ture , from the mountains and the lights of the fir- mament . - - These hints , dropped as it were from sleep ...
... circumstance , in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute na- ture , from the mountains and the lights of the fir- mament . - - These hints , dropped as it were from sleep ...
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... circumstances indifferent . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to ac- complish his design ; - and posterity seem to fol low his steps as a train of clients . A SELF ...
... circumstances indifferent . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to ac- complish his design ; - and posterity seem to fol low his steps as a train of clients . A SELF ...
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... circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and what is called life and what is Lealled death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the mo- ment of transition from a past ...
... circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and what is called life and what is Lealled death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the mo- ment of transition from a past ...
Page 96
... circumstance that puts down the overbear- ing , the strong , the rich , the fortunate , substantially on the same ground with all others . Is a man too strong and fierce for society and by temper and position a bad citizen , — a morose ...
... circumstance that puts down the overbear- ing , the strong , the rich , the fortunate , substantially on the same ground with all others . Is a man too strong and fierce for society and by temper and position a bad citizen , — a morose ...
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