Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the ...
... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the ...
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... feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner , feels to ...
... feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner , feels to ...
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... feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , its pine , its oak , its fir , its spruce . The Gothic cathedral ...
... feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , its pine , its oak , its fir , its spruce . The Gothic cathedral ...
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... feel in Greek history , letters , art and poetry , in all its periods , from the heroic or Homeric age , down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? This period draws us because we are Greeks ...
... feel in Greek history , letters , art and poetry , in all its periods , from the heroic or Homeric age , down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? This period draws us because we are Greeks ...
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... feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fel- low beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine ...
... feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fel- low beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine ...
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