Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 14
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their princi- ple of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their princi- ple of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
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... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at 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 ...
... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at 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 ...
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... seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of every man's observation , of trivial facts which go to illustrate great and conspicuous facts . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that ...
... seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of every man's observation , of trivial facts which go to illustrate great and conspicuous facts . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that ...
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... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which ...
... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which ...
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... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel ...
... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel ...
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