Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as con- taining this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as con- taining this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and ...
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... person . He must sit at home with might and main and not suffer him- self to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view ...
... person . He must sit at home with might and main and not suffer him- self to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view ...
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... person as himself , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself in given circumstances should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes ...
... person as himself , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself in given circumstances should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes ...
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... persons they were and what they did . Then we have the same soul ex- pressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture— the purest ...
... persons they were and what they did . Then we have the same soul ex- pressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture— the purest ...
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... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the an tique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not ...
... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the an tique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not ...
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