Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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Page 9
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as contain- ing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as contain- ing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and ...
Page 11
... wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at BY OF TION ། THE TOAL home with might and main and not suffer himself to HISTORY . 11.
... wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at BY OF TION ། THE TOAL home with might and main and not suffer himself to HISTORY . 11.
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... person as himself , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself in given circumstances should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes ...
... person as himself , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself in given circumstances should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes ...
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... persons they were and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture - the purest ...
... persons they were and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture - the purest ...
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... persons speak simply , -speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of ...
... persons speak simply , -speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of ...
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