Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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... nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . 66 What is His- tory , " said Napoleon , " but a fable HISTORY . .15.
... nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . 66 What is His- tory , " said Napoleon , " but a fable HISTORY . .15.
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... heaven - facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul , - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to ...
... heaven - facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul , - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to ...
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... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretend- ing to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one ...
... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretend- ing to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one ...
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... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact ...
... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact ...
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... heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see , how you can see ; ' it must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' ceive , that light , unsystematic ...
... heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see , how you can see ; ' it must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' ceive , that light , unsystematic ...
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