Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the waterpot , lose all their meanness when hung as ...
... nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the waterpot , lose all their meanness when hung as ...
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... 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 Napoleon ...
... 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 Napoleon ...
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... 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 of form ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
... 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 of form ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
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... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well known air through innumerable varia- tions . Nature 2 HISTORY . 17 : ...
... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well known air through innumerable varia- tions . Nature 2 HISTORY . 17 : ...
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... Nature is full of a sublime family likeness . throughout her works . She delights in startling us with resemblances ... nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I ...
... Nature is full of a sublime family likeness . throughout her works . She delights in startling us with resemblances ... nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I ...
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