Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 15
... of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it converts all things to its own end . The adamant streams History . 15.
... of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it converts all things to its own end . The adamant streams History . 15.
Page 52
... matter how you gauge and try him . A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza ; —read it forward , backward , or across , it still spells the same thing . In this pleasing contrite wood - life which God allows me , let me ...
... matter how you gauge and try him . A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza ; —read it forward , backward , or across , it still spells the same thing . In this pleasing contrite wood - life which God allows me , let me ...
Page 84
... matter ; man , woman ; subjective , objective ; in , out ; upper , under ; motion , rest ; yea , nay . Whilst the world is thus dual , so is every one of its parts . The entire system of things gets rep- resented in every particle ...
... matter ; man , woman ; subjective , objective ; in , out ; upper , under ; motion , rest ; yea , nay . Whilst the world is thus dual , so is every one of its parts . The entire system of things gets rep- resented in every particle ...
Page 113
... matter . Either God is there or He is not there . We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous . The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him . Timoleon's victories are the best vic ...
... matter . Either God is there or He is not there . We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous . The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him . Timoleon's victories are the best vic ...
Page 128
... matter . It will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being , whether you sneak about and deny your own name , or whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens , one with the revolution of the ...
... matter . It will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being , whether you sneak about and deny your own name , or whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens , one with the revolution of the ...
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