Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 7
... once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to ...
... once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to ...
Page 8
... once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must cor- respond to something in me to be credible or in- telligible . We , as we read , must become Greeks ...
... once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must cor- respond to something in me to be credible or in- telligible . We , as we read , must become Greeks ...
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... once more in their architecture— the purest sensuous beauty - the perfect medium never over - stepping the limit of charming pro- priety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression ...
... once more in their architecture— the purest sensuous beauty - the perfect medium never over - stepping the limit of charming pro- priety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression ...
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... once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the ...
... once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the ...
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... once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they ...
... once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they ...
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