Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 9
... nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the water - pot lose all their meanness when hung ...
... nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the water - pot lose all their meanness when hung ...
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... 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 Napoleon ...
... 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 Napoleon ...
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... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , should we be such hard pedants , and mag- nify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , should we be such hard pedants , and mag- nify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
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... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable varia- tions . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works . She delights in startling us ...
... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable varia- tions . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works . She delights in startling us ...
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... nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public sur- vey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological ...
... nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public sur- vey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological ...
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