Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time ...
... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time ...
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... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every re- form was once a private opinion , and when it shall be private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated ...
... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every re- form was once a private opinion , and when it shall be private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated ...
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... man by stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each man his own idea , de- scribes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , conversation ...
... man by stoic or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each man his own idea , de- scribes his unattained but attainable self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . All books , monuments , pictures , conversation ...
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... man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . put ourselves into the place and historical state of the builder . We remember the forest dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to ...
... man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . put ourselves into the place and historical state of the builder . We remember the forest dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to ...
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... man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races , yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Eschylus , transformed to a cow , offends the imagination , but how ...
... man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races , yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace ; as Io , in Eschylus , transformed to a cow , offends the imagination , but how ...
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