Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 7
... as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances pre- dominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclo pædia of facts . The creation of a thousand for- ESSAY HISTORY.
... as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances pre- dominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclo pædia of facts . The creation of a thousand for- ESSAY HISTORY.
Page 14
... circumstances should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul with satisfaction , and they live again to the ...
... circumstances should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul with satisfaction , and they live again to the ...
Page 15
... circumstance . Every chemical substance , every plant , every animal in its growth , teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appearance . Why , being as we are , surrounded by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or ...
... circumstance . Every chemical substance , every plant , every animal in its growth , teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appearance . Why , being as we are , surrounded by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or ...
Page 54
... circumstances indifferent - put all means into the shade . This all great men are and do . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; re- quires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought ; -and ...
... circumstances indifferent - put all means into the shade . This all great men are and do . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; re- quires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought ; -and ...
Page 61
... circumstances , as it does underlie my present and will always all circumstance , and what is called life and what is called death . Vast Power Life only avails , not the having lived . ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in ...
... circumstances , as it does underlie my present and will always all circumstance , and what is called life and what is called death . Vast Power Life only avails , not the having lived . ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in ...
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