Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
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... genius , -anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of ...
... genius , -anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of ...
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... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other ...
... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other ...
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... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
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... genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xeno- phon , Plutarch , have given it — a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did . Then we have the ...
... genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xeno- phon , Plutarch , have given it — a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did . Then we have the ...
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