Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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... 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.
... 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.
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... moral thing : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external ex- pressions proceed from one national mind ...
... moral thing : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external ex- pressions proceed from one national mind ...
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... moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his ...
... moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a supersti- tion . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his ...
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... morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As long as the Caucasian man , -perhaps longer , - these creatures have kept their counsel beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other . Nay ...
... morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As long as the Caucasian man , -perhaps longer , - these creatures have kept their counsel beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other . Nay ...
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... moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion , and ...
... moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion , and ...
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