Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
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... experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
... experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you ...
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... experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does ...
... experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does ...
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... experience of every day is always veri- fying some old prediction to us , and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me , that the ...
... experience of every day is always veri- fying some old prediction to us , and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me , that the ...
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... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world , he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to ...
... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world , he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to ...
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