Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... nature , as the lig on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millic of miles distant , as the poise of my body depen on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripet forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ag and the ages ...
... nature , as the lig on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millic of miles distant , as the poise of my body depen on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripet forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ag and the ages ...
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... nature , be- trays itself in the use we make of the signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre ...
... nature , be- trays itself in the use we make of the signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre ...
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... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and mag- nify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its ...
... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and mag- nify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its ...
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... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works , and delights in startling us with ...
... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works , and delights in startling us with ...
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... nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological ...
... nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological ...
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