Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia , s as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political ...
... secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia , s as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political ...
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... secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ...
... secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ...
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... true for all . own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his His private adventures with every fable of Esop , of Homer HISTORY . 29.
... true for all . own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his His private adventures with every fable of Esop , of Homer HISTORY . 29.
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... secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right di rection . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor ...
... secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right di rection . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor ...
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... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome ever- more to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide . Him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with de- sire . Our love goes out to ...
... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome ever- more to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide . Him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with de- sire . Our love goes out to ...
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