Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 8
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
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... experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What be- fell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illus- tration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political ...
... experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What be- fell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illus- tration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political ...
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... experience and verifying them here . All history 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 ...
... experience and verifying them here . All history 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 ...
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... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things for us also the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of ...
... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things for us also the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of ...
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... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the ...
... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the ...
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