Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
Page 37
... experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall ... experiences ; -his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in ...
... experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall ... experiences ; -his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in ...
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... experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth to a parcel of accidental and ...
... experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth to a parcel of accidental and ...
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