Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 31
... come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence evi- dently the tripod ...
... come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence evi- dently the tripod ...
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... comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Esop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the ...
... comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Esop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the ...
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... come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant ...
... come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant ...
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... come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
... come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
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... come back to us with a certain alienated maj- esty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good - humored in- flexibility then most when the whole ...
... come back to us with a certain alienated maj- esty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good - humored in- flexibility then most when the whole ...
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