Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... intel- lectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life ...
... intel- lectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life ...
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... intel- lect constructive . Intellect is the simple power an- terior to all action or construction . Gladly would I unfold in calm degrees a natural history of the intellect , but what man has yet been able to mark the steps and ...
... intel- lect constructive . Intellect is the simple power an- terior to all action or construction . Gladly would I unfold in calm degrees a natural history of the intellect , but what man has yet been able to mark the steps and ...
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... Intel- lect separates the fact considered , from you , from all local and personal reference , and discerns it as if it existed for its own sake . Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists . In the fog of good and ...
... Intel- lect separates the fact considered , from you , from all local and personal reference , and discerns it as if it existed for its own sake . Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists . In the fog of good and ...
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