Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is 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 ...
... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is 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 ...
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... man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece ... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
... man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece ... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
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... man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming ... man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have re- sounded far ...
... man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming ... man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have re- sounded far ...
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... man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We re- member the forest - dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to the ...
... man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We re- member the forest - dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to the ...
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... man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship ...
... man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship ...
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