Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 8
... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained ...
... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained ...
Page 9
... light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity ; the foundation of friend- ship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remark- able that ...
... light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity ; the foundation of friend- ship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remark- able that ...
Page 11
... lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to es- teem his own life the text , and books the com- mentary ...
... lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to es- teem his own life the text , and books the com- mentary ...
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... light and of the world . I remember that being abroad one sum- mer day in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quar ter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accu- rately in the form of a ...
... light and of the world . I remember that being abroad one sum- mer day in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quar ter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accu- rately in the form of a ...
Page 31
... facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyran- nize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which History . 31.
... facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyran- nize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which History . 31.
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