Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing ...
... universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing ...
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... universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . 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 ...
... universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . 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 ...
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... Universal his- tory , the poets , the romancers , do not in their state- liest pictures , in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , — anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude ...
... Universal his- tory , the poets , the romancers , do not in their state- liest pictures , in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , — anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude ...
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... universal man wrote by his pen a confes- sion true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligi- ble to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private ...
... universal man wrote by his pen a confes- sion true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligi- ble to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private ...
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... universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that ...
... universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that ...
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