Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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Page 11
... once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has felt he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this ...
... once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has felt he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this ...
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... once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks ...
... once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks ...
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... persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete - form . Then we have it once more in HISTORY . 19.
... persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete - form . Then we have it once more in HISTORY . 19.
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. - form . Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. - form . Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture ...
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... once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted ...
... once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted ...
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