Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and ...
... eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and ...
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... eternal flower with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and per- spective of vegetable beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then ...
... eternal flower with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and per- spective of vegetable beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then ...
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... Eternal Father , and the race of mortals ; and readily suffers all things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily ...
... Eternal Father , and the race of mortals ; and readily suffers all things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily ...
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... eternal entities , as real to - day as in the first Olympiad . Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it ...
... eternal entities , as real to - day as in the first Olympiad . Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it ...
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... Eternal was stirring at their heart , working through their hands , predominating in all their being . And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards ...
... Eternal was stirring at their heart , working through their hands , predominating in all their being . And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards ...
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