EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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... earth , and water . These stand and wait to render him a peculiar service . But there is some obstruc- tion , or some excess of phlegm in our constitu- tion , which does not suffer them to yield the due effect . Too feeble fall the ...
... earth , and water . These stand and wait to render him a peculiar service . But there is some obstruc- tion , or some excess of phlegm in our constitu- tion , which does not suffer them to yield the due effect . Too feeble fall the ...
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... earth , and sea . How gladly we listened ! how credulous ! Society seemed to be compromised . We sat in the aurora of a sunrise which was to put out all the stars . Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before , or ...
... earth , and sea . How gladly we listened ! how credulous ! Society seemed to be compromised . We sat in the aurora of a sunrise which was to put out all the stars . Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before , or ...
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... earth , and the heavenly bodies , physics , and chemistry , we sensually treat , as if they were self - existent ; but these are the retinue of that Being we have . " The mighty heaven , ' said Proclus , " exhibits , in its ...
... earth , and the heavenly bodies , physics , and chemistry , we sensually treat , as if they were self - existent ; but these are the retinue of that Being we have . " The mighty heaven , ' said Proclus , " exhibits , in its ...
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... earth , shall make the blood tingle under the rudest , or the most conventional exterior . The people fancy they hate poetry , and they are all poets and mystics ! Beyond this universality of the symbolic lan- guage , we are apprised of ...
... earth , shall make the blood tingle under the rudest , or the most conventional exterior . The people fancy they hate poetry , and they are all poets and mystics ! Beyond this universality of the symbolic lan- guage , we are apprised of ...
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... earth , so the poet turns the world to glass , and shows us all things in their right series and procession . For , through that better perception , he stands one step nearer to things , and sees the flowing or metamorphosis ; perceives ...
... earth , so the poet turns the world to glass , and shows us all things in their right series and procession . For , through that better perception , he stands one step nearer to things , and sees the flowing or metamorphosis ; perceives ...
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