Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 9
... 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 has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to ...
... 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 has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to ...
Page 10
... Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion 10 HISTORY .
... Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion 10 HISTORY .
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... once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , — a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expres- HISTORY . 19.
... once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , — a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expres- HISTORY . 19.
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... most unexpected quarters . I have seen the head of an old sachem of the for- est which at once reminded the eye of a bald moun- tain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose 20 HISTORY .
... most unexpected quarters . I have seen the head of an old sachem of the for- est which at once reminded the eye of a bald moun- tain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose 20 HISTORY .
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... once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it was undoubt- edly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they ...
... once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it was undoubt- edly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they ...
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