Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 9
... thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the ...
... thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the ...
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... thought in one man's mind , and whe the same thought occurs to another man , it is th key to that era . Every reform was once a privat opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion 10 HISTORY .
... thought in one man's mind , and whe the same thought occurs to another man , it is th key to that era . Every reform was once a privat opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion 10 HISTORY .
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... 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 satisfaction , and they live 16 HISTORY .
... 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 satisfaction , and they live 16 HISTORY .
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... thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge , ere they fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius ...
... thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge , ere they fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius ...
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... thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud ? If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep ...
... thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud ? If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep ...
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