Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 7
... 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 has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to ...
... 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 has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to ...
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... once a private opinion , and when it shall be private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be cred- ible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks ...
... once a private opinion , and when it shall be private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be cred- ible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks ...
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... once more in their architecture , the purest sen- suous beauty , -the perfect medium never over- stepping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , — the tongue on the balance of expression ...
... once more in their architecture , the purest sen- suous beauty , -the perfect medium never over- stepping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , — the tongue on the balance of expression ...
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... once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splen- dor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the ...
... once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splen- dor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the ...
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... once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it was undoubt- edly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they ...
... once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it was undoubt- edly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they ...
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