Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 8
... relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of ...
... relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of ...
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... relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface differences . To the poet , to the philoso- pher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all ...
... relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface differences . To the poet , to the philoso- pher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all ...
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... relations with his fellow - men . Every man , everything is a prize , a study , a property to him , and this love smooths his brow , joins him to men and makes him beautiful and beloved in their sight . His house is a wagon ; he roams ...
... relations with his fellow - men . Every man , everything is a prize , a study , a property to him , and this love smooths his brow , joins him to men and makes him beautiful and beloved in their sight . His house is a wagon ; he roams ...
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... relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . All his faculties refer to natures out of him . All his faculties predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the ...
... relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . All his faculties refer to natures out of him . All his faculties predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the ...
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... seen it before me . For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh , 60 ESSAY II .
... seen it before me . For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh , 60 ESSAY II .
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