Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this 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 ...
... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this 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 ...
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... feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of ...
... feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of ...
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... feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Ori- ental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attain- able self . All literature writes the ...
... feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Ori- ental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attain- able self . All literature writes the ...
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... of Oxford and the English cathe- drals , without feeling that the forest overpow- ered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak 20 HISTORY.
... of Oxford and the English cathe- drals , without feeling that the forest overpow- ered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak 20 HISTORY.
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... , libraries , and the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas . What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history , letters , art and poetry , --- in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric HISTORY 23.
... , libraries , and the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas . What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history , letters , art and poetry , --- in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric HISTORY 23.
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