Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... 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 this universal mind , is a party to all that is or can be done ...
... 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 this universal mind , is a party to all that is or can be done ...
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... whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a 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 ...
... whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a 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 ...
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... whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography ...
... whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography ...
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... whole lesson for itself - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipu lar convenience , it will lose all the good ...
... whole lesson for itself - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipu lar convenience , it will lose all the good ...
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... whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . We A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by ...
... whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . We A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by ...
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