Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 16
... moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , but , whilst I look at it ...
... moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , but , whilst I look at it ...
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... moral thing : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the Peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external expressions proceed from one national mind ...
... moral thing : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the Peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external expressions proceed from one national mind ...
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... moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to la- ment the decay of piety in ...
... moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to la- ment the decay of piety in ...
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... morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As long as the Caucasian man - perhaps longer - these creatures have kept their counsel beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other . Nay ...
... morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As long as the Caucasian man - perhaps longer - these creatures have kept their counsel beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other . Nay ...
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... moral stand- ard than the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion and ...
... moral stand- ard than the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion and ...
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