Essays: First SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 333 pages |
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... to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preƫxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power ESSAY I.
... to it in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preƫxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power ESSAY I.
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... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and ...
... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and ...
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... nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs ...
... nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs ...
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... nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . - These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the ...
... nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . - These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the ...
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... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
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