Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... deep a property he hath in all literature - in all fable as well as in all history . He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true ...
... deep a property he hath in all literature - in all fable as well as in all history . He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true ...
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... deep cause , -disguise no god , but are put on and off as the wind blows , and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough for a firm man who ...
... deep cause , -disguise no god , but are put on and off as the wind blows , and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough for a firm man who ...
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... deep a lower deep opens . This fact as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable , the flying Perfect , around which the hands of man can never meet , at once the inspirer and the condemner of every success , may ...
... deep a lower deep opens . This fact as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable , the flying Perfect , around which the hands of man can never meet , at once the inspirer and the condemner of every success , may ...
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