Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 10
... experience . There i relation between the hours of our life and the c turies of time . As the air I breathe is dra from the great repositories of nature , as the lig on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millic of miles distant , as ...
... experience . There i relation between the hours of our life and the c turies of time . As the air I breathe is dra from the great repositories of nature , as the lig on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millic of miles distant , as ...
Page 11
... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
... experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
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... experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not ...
... experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not ...
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... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods 22 ...
... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods 22 ...
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... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the ...
... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the ...
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