Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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... body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ... bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in ...
... body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ... bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in ...
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... body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities , wherein the face is a confused blur of features , but ...
... body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities , wherein the face is a confused blur of features , but ...
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... body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversa- tion with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry , to unfix and as it were clap wings to all solid nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus , which was to his ...
... body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversa- tion with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry , to unfix and as it were clap wings to all solid nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus , which was to his ...
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... body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet it is much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful relief to ...
... body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet it is much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful relief to ...
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... bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our opinions , our tastes , our whole ...
... bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our opinions , our tastes , our whole ...
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