Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the ...
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the ...
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... human mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and ...
... human mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and ...
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... Human life as contain- ing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws de- rive hence their ultimate reason , all express at last reverence for some command of this supreme illimitable ...
... Human life as contain- ing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws de- rive hence their ultimate reason , all express at last reverence for some command of this supreme illimitable ...
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... human nature ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary reason for every fact , - see how it could and must be . So stand before every public , every private work ; before an ora tion of Burke , before a victory of ...
... human nature ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary reason for every fact , - see how it could and must be . So stand before every public , every private work ; before an ora tion of Burke , before a victory of ...
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... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remem- ber that being abroad one summer day , my com- panion ...
... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remem- ber that being abroad one summer day , my com- panion ...
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