Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat . corresponding in his life . Everything tends in ...
... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat . corresponding in his life . Everything tends in ...
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... 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 . No ...
... 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 . No ...
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... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the Peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external expressions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have observed ...
... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the Peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external expressions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have observed ...
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... in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied 24 ESSAY I.
... in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied 24 ESSAY I.
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... sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our ... senses , perfect in their health , with the finest phys- ical organization in the world . Adults acted with the ...
... sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our ... senses , perfect in their health , with the finest phys- ical organization in the world . Adults acted with the ...
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