Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as con taining this , is mysterious and inviolable , ai hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as con taining this , is mysterious and inviolable , ai hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
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... person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which his ...
... person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which his ...
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... person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with ...
... person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with ...
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... persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture ...
... persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture ...
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... persons speak simply , speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of ...
... persons speak simply , speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of ...
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