Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 9
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind ...
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind ...
Page 10
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the 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 ...
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the 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 ...
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... Human life , as con- taining this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme , il ...
... Human life , as con- taining this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme , il ...
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... covered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History must be this or it is nothing . Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human We must in ourselves see the nature ; that is HISTORY . 15.
... covered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History must be this or it is nothing . Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human We must in ourselves see the nature ; that is HISTORY . 15.
Page 23
... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an arch- angel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my com- panion pointed out ...
... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an arch- angel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my com- panion pointed out ...
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