Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and ex- ecutioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and ex- ecutioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
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... becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
... becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
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... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its mag- nificent era never ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its mag- nificent era never ...
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... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the ... becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that ...
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the ... becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that ...
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... becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth . The fact teaches him how Belus was wor ...
... becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth . The fact teaches him how Belus was wor ...
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