Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emo- tion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the ...
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emo- tion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the ...
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... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life ...
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life ...
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... Human life , as con- taining this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express at last reverence for some command of this supreme ...
... Human life , as con- taining this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express at last reverence for some command of this supreme ...
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... human nature ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary reason for every fact , -see how it could and must be . So stand before every public , every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of ...
... human nature ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary reason for every fact , -see how it could and must be . So stand before every public , every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of ...
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... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember that being abroad one sum- mer day in the fields , my ...
... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember that being abroad one sum- mer day in the fields , my ...
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