Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 12
... passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immor- tal ...
... passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immor- tal ...
Page 14
... passes through them all like a creative soul with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man ...
... passes through them all like a creative soul with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man ...
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... passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of ...
... passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of ...
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... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then ...
... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then ...
Page 36
... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incar- nate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and ...
... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incar- nate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and ...
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