Essays: First SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 333 pages |
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Page 8
... pass- ing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ...
... pass- ing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ...
Page 10
... and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , } and not done by us . Surely it was by 10 ESSAY I.
... and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , } and not done by us . Surely it was by 10 ESSAY I.
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... this , that every man passes personally through a Grecian pe- riod . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spirit- The man- The rever- ual nature unfolded in strict unity HISTORY . 21.
... this , that every man passes personally through a Grecian pe- riod . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spirit- The man- The rever- ual nature unfolded in strict unity HISTORY . 21.
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... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then ...
... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then ...
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... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . shall not tell me by languages and titles a ...
... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . shall not tell me by languages and titles a ...
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