EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 8
... fact : Orpheus , Empedocles , Heraclitus , Plato , Plutarch , Dante , Swedenborg , and the masters of sculpture , pic- ture , and poetry . For we are not pans and barrows , nor even porters of the fire and torch- bearers , but children ...
... fact : Orpheus , Empedocles , Heraclitus , Plato , Plutarch , Dante , Swedenborg , and the masters of sculpture , pic- ture , and poetry . For we are not pans and barrows , nor even porters of the fire and torch- bearers , but children ...
Page 10
... manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men , and dis- parages such as say and do not , overlooking the fact that some men , namely , poets , are natural sayers , sent into the world to the end of 10 ESSAY I.
... manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men , and dis- parages such as say and do not , overlooking the fact that some men , namely , poets , are natural sayers , sent into the world to the end of 10 ESSAY I.
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... the Deity , in this , that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature ; and the distinc- tions which we make in events , and in affairs , of low and high , honest nature is used as a 18 ESSAY I.
... the Deity , in this , that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature ; and the distinc- tions which we make in events , and in affairs , of low and high , honest nature is used as a 18 ESSAY I.
Page 19
... facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use . We can come to use them yet ...
... facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use . We can come to use them yet ...
Page 20
... facts . Readers of poetry see the factory - village and the railway , and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is ... fact re- mains unalterable , by many or by few particulars ; as no mountain is of any appreciable height to break ...
... facts . Readers of poetry see the factory - village and the railway , and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is ... fact re- mains unalterable , by many or by few particulars ; as no mountain is of any appreciable height to break ...
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