Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is this 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 laws ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is this 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 laws ...
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... person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view ...
... person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view ...
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... person as himself , so armed and so mo- tived , and to ends to which he himself in given circumstances should also have worked , the prob- lem is then solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs ...
... person as himself , so armed and so mo- tived , and to ends to which he himself in given circumstances should also have worked , the prob- lem is then solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs ...
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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 sen ...
... 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 sen ...
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... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re flective habit has become the predominant ... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the muse of Hel- las . A great ...
... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re flective habit has become the predominant ... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the muse of Hel- las . A great ...
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