Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 7
... less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , 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 ...
... less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , 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 ...
Page 30
... less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into ...
... less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into ...
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... less . strictly implicated . He is the compend of time ; he is also the correlative of nature . The power of man consists in the multitude of his affinities , in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and ...
... less . strictly implicated . He is the compend of time ; he is also the correlative of nature . The power of man consists in the multitude of his affinities , in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and ...
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... less does the brain of Davy or of Gay Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organization . Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light ? the ear of Handel ...
... less does the brain of Davy or of Gay Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organization . Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light ? the ear of Handel ...
Page 44
... less with its own piquancy and charm , and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by , if it will stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force , because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next ...
... less with its own piquancy and charm , and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by , if it will stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force , because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next ...
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