Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time ...
... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time ...
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... man . Epoch after epoch , can kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are mer the application of his manifold spirit ... man's mind , and whe the same thought occurs to another man , it is th key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
... man . Epoch after epoch , can kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are mer the application of his manifold spirit ... man's mind , and whe the same thought occurs to another man , it is th key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
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... man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming ... man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have re- sounded far ...
... man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming ... man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have re- sounded far ...
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... man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We re- member the forest - dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to the ...
... man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We re- member the forest - dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to the ...
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... man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races ; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Eschylus , transformed to a cow , offends the im- agination ; but how ...
... man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races ; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Eschylus , transformed to a cow , offends the im- agination ; but how ...
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