Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 15
... appear- ance . Why , being as we are surrounded by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or ...
... appear- ance . Why , being as we are surrounded by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or ...
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... appears once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it was undoubt- edly 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 ...
... appears once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it was undoubt- edly 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 ...
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... appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God ex- ists , and a feeling that the ...
... appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God ex- ists , and a feeling that the ...
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... appear stupid . Transport him to large countries , dense population , complex inter- ests , and antagonistic power , and you shall see that the man Napoleon , bounded , that is , by such a profile and outline , is not the virtual ...
... appear stupid . Transport him to large countries , dense population , complex inter- ests , and antagonistic power , and you shall see that the man Napoleon , bounded , that is , by such a profile and outline , is not the virtual ...
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... a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non - appear- ance on parade . Their works are done as an 4 SELF - RELIANCE . 49 than the affectation of love. Your goodness ...
... a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non - appear- ance on parade . Their works are done as an 4 SELF - RELIANCE . 49 than the affectation of love. Your goodness ...
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