Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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Page 11
... 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 universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for ...
... 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 universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for ...
Page 12
... whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature ...
... whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature ...
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... whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular con- venience , it will lose all 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 . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular con- venience , it will lose all the ...
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... whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man ...
... whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man ...
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... whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the orna- ment that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old ...
... whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the orna- ment that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old ...
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