Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the mani- fold world . This human mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx ...
... already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the mani- fold world . This human mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx ...
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... 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 constel- lation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ...
... 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 constel- lation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ...
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... already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual ...
... already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual ...
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... already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy and Gay Lussac from childhood ex- ploring always the affinities and repulsions of par- ticles , anticipate the laws of organization . Does not the eye ...
... already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy and Gay Lussac from childhood ex- ploring always the affinities and repulsions of par- ticles , anticipate the laws of organization . Does not the eye ...
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... our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes . Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path 38 ESSAY I.
... our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes . Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path 38 ESSAY I.
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