Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 31
... heaven had sent its in- sane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out into their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow ...
... heaven had sent its in- sane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out into their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow ...
Page 72
... the system blend to their eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe ; the luminaries of heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see 72 ESSAY II .
... the system blend to their eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe ; the luminaries of heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see 72 ESSAY II .
Page 125
... heaven , and inwardly aspire after , is the state or circumstance desirable to my constitution ; and the action which I in all my years tend to do , is the work for my faculties . We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of ...
... heaven , and inwardly aspire after , is the state or circumstance desirable to my constitution ; and the action which I in all my years tend to do , is the work for my faculties . We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of ...
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