Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page 7
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of his- tory preëxist in the ...
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of his- tory preëxist in the ...
Page 8
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life ...
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life ...
Page 9
... Human life , as contain- ing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express at last rev- erence for some command of this supreme , illimit ...
... Human life , as contain- ing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express at last rev- erence for some command of this supreme , illimit ...
Page 13
... human nature ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary reason for every fact , -see how it could and must be . So stand before every public every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon ...
... human nature ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary reason for every fact , -see how it could and must be . So stand before every public every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon ...
Page 20
... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember that being abroad one summer day in the fields , my ...
... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember that being abroad one summer day in the fields , my ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action affection appear beautiful soul beauty become behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar cern character circumstance conversation divine doctrine Egypt Epaminondas eternal experience fact fear feel friendship genius gifts give Greek hand heart heaven Heraclitus heroism hour human ical instinct intellect less light live look lose lustrate man's marriage ment mind moral morphosis nature never noble object OVER-SOUL painted pass passion perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion picture Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry prudence relations religion Rome sculpture secret seek seems seen sense sensual sentiment Shakspeare society Sophocles soul speak Spinoza spirit stand stoicism sweet talent teach tence thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth ture universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth