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Page 23
... exist , or super - exist , in pre - cantations , which sail like odors in the air , and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine , he overhears them , and endeavors to write down the notes , without diluting or depraving them ...
... exist , or super - exist , in pre - cantations , which sail like odors in the air , and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine , he overhears them , and endeavors to write down the notes , without diluting or depraving them ...
Page 35
... exists in these intellections , it is of the last importance that these things get spoken . What a little of all we know is said ! What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up ! and by what acci- dent it is that these are ...
... exists in these intellections , it is of the last importance that these things get spoken . What a little of all we know is said ! What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up ! and by what acci- dent it is that these are ...
Page 63
... exist in many minds around you , of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have . The new statement will comprise the skepticisms , as well as the faiths of society , and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed ...
... exist in many minds around you , of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have . The new statement will comprise the skepticisms , as well as the faiths of society , and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed ...
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... exist . That discovery is called the Fall of Man . Ever after- wards , we suspect our instruments . We have learned that we do not see directly , but mediately , and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting ...
... exist . That discovery is called the Fall of Man . Ever after- wards , we suspect our instruments . We have learned that we do not see directly , but mediately , and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting ...
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... exists , the subject enlarges ; all things sooner or later fall into place . As I am , so I see ; use what language we will , we can never say anything but what we are ; Hermes , Cadmus , Columbus , Newton , Bona- parte , are the mind's ...
... exists , the subject enlarges ; all things sooner or later fall into place . As I am , so I see ; use what language we will , we can never say anything but what we are ; Hermes , Cadmus , Columbus , Newton , Bona- parte , are the mind's ...
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