Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 8
... respond to something in me to be credible or in- telligible . We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and ex- ecutioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in 8 History .
... respond to something in me to be credible or in- telligible . We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and ex- ecutioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in 8 History .
Page 12
... becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History , only Biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , -must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
... becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History , only Biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , -must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
Page 22
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave ...
Page 25
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the an tique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in their senses , perfect in their health , with the finest ...
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the an tique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in their senses , perfect in their health , with the finest ...
Page 26
... becomes a thought to me , -when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one , why ...
... becomes a thought to me , -when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one , why ...
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