Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 12
... fact a fact . Babylon and Troy and Tyre and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have ...
... fact a fact . Babylon and Troy and Tyre and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have ...
Page 276
... fact . Not through subtle , subterranean channels , need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart , but , rightly considered , these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul . Cause and effect are two sides of one fact ...
... fact . Not through subtle , subterranean channels , need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart , but , rightly considered , these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul . Cause and effect are two sides of one fact ...
Page 286
... fact considered from you , from all local and personal reference , and discerns it as if it existed for its own sake . Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists . In the fog of good and evil affec- tions , it is ...
... fact considered from you , from all local and personal reference , and discerns it as if it existed for its own sake . Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists . In the fog of good and evil affec- tions , it is ...
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