EssaysLittle Leather Library Corporation, 1910 - 96 pages |
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... age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought ; -and posterity seem to follow his steps as a proces- sion . A man Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Empire . Christ is born , and ...
... age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought ; -and posterity seem to follow his steps as a proces- sion . A man Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Empire . Christ is born , and ...
Page 44
... ages ; nor can all the science , art , re- ligion , and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion ...
... ages ; nor can all the science , art , re- ligion , and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion ...
Page 62
... ages until a sage comes , without doubting , knows men . Hence the virtuous prince moves , and for ages shows em- pire the way . " But there is no need to seek remote examples . He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him ...
... ages until a sage comes , without doubting , knows men . Hence the virtuous prince moves , and for ages shows em- pire the way . " But there is no need to seek remote examples . He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him ...
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