Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 39
... Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet comes by , he tries his fortune at read- ing her riddle . There seems to be a necessity LANGUAGE . 39.
... Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet comes by , he tries his fortune at read- ing her riddle . There seems to be a necessity LANGUAGE . 39.
Page 59
... Plato , " is , for all that exists conditionally , to find a ground unconditioned and absolute . " It proceeds on ... Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles ? It is , in both cases , that a ...
... Plato , " is , for all that exists conditionally , to find a ground unconditioned and absolute . " It proceeds on ... Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles ? It is , in both cases , that a ...
Page 73
... Plato , that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history . " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect , and we learn to prefer imperfect theories , and sentences which contain glimpses of truth ...
... Plato , that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history . " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect , and we learn to prefer imperfect theories , and sentences which contain glimpses of truth ...
Page 94
... Plato or Shakspeare , only that least part , only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; all the rest he rejects , were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's . - - Of course there is a portion of reading quite indis ...
... Plato or Shakspeare , only that least part , only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; all the rest he rejects , were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's . - - Of course there is a portion of reading quite indis ...
Page 156
... Plato , - these you not how three , and cause them not to be . See much less the power of man would be ? I console myself in the poverty of my thoughts , in the pau- city of great men , in the malignity and dulness of the nations , by ...
... Plato , - these you not how three , and cause them not to be . See much less the power of man would be ? I console myself in the poverty of my thoughts , in the pau- city of great men , in the malignity and dulness of the nations , by ...
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