Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time.
... fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time.
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... facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie ... fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life ...
... facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie ... fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life ...
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... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become ... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide HISTORY . 11.
... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become ... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide HISTORY . 11.
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... fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for char- ity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is ...
... fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for char- ity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is ...
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... fact and circumstance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute na- ture , from the mountains and the lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from ...
... fact and circumstance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute na- ture , from the mountains and the lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from ...
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