Essays, Volume 2G. Richards, 1901 - 354 pages |
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Page 144
... Plotinus , is almost ashamed of its body . What shall it say , then , to the sugarplums and cat's - cradles , to the toilet , compliments , quarrels , cards , and custard , which rack the wit of all society ? What joys has kind nature ...
... Plotinus , is almost ashamed of its body . What shall it say , then , to the sugarplums and cat's - cradles , to the toilet , compliments , quarrels , cards , and custard , which rack the wit of all society ? What joys has kind nature ...
Page 161
... Plotinus , the vision of Porphyry , the conversion of Paul , the aurora of Behmen , the convulsions of George Fox and his Quakers , the illumination of Swedenborg , are of this kind . What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ...
... Plotinus , the vision of Porphyry , the conversion of Paul , the aurora of Behmen , the convulsions of George Fox and his Quakers , the illumination of Swedenborg , are of this kind . What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ...
Page 197
... Plotinus , Olympiodorus , Proclus , Synesius , and the rest , have somewhat so vast in their logic , so primary in their thinking , that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary 6 Well distinctions of rhetoric and literature , and to be ...
... Plotinus , Olympiodorus , Proclus , Synesius , and the rest , have somewhat so vast in their logic , so primary in their thinking , that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary 6 Well distinctions of rhetoric and literature , and to be ...
Page 243
... Plotinus ; at one time in Bacon ; afterwards in Goethe ; even in Bettine ; but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly , whilst I still cherish their genius . So with pictures ; each will bear an emphasis of attention once ...
... Plotinus ; at one time in Bacon ; afterwards in Goethe ; even in Bettine ; but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly , whilst I still cherish their genius . So with pictures ; each will bear an emphasis of attention once ...
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