Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Page 26
... seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and ...
... seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and ...
Page 31
... seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely a discon- tent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator , and ...
... seems the self - defence of man against this untruth , namely a discon- tent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator , and ...
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... seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fic- tions of the Middle Age explain themselves ...
... seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fic- tions of the Middle Age explain themselves ...
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... seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold then , he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary . ' The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner , and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ...
... seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold then , he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary . ' The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner , and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ...
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... seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child , I will live then from the Devil . " No law can be sa- cred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is ...
... seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child , I will live then from the Devil . " No law can be sa- cred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is ...
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