Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions . of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and ...
... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions . of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and ...
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... nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the waterpot , lose all their meanness when hung ...
... nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the waterpot , lose all their meanness when hung ...
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... 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 ora tion of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon ...
... 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 ora tion of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon ...
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... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of form ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of form ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
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... Nature is an endless combination . and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well known air through innumerable varia- tions . Nature 2 HISTORY . 17.
... Nature is an endless combination . and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well known air through innumerable varia- tions . Nature 2 HISTORY . 17.
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