Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... fact , see how it could - and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robin- son ; before a ...
... fact , see how it could - and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robin- son ; before a ...
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... fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power It has been said that " common souls pay with of awakening other souls to a given ...
... fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power It has been said that " common souls pay with of awakening other souls to a given ...
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... facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imi- tated in the slender shafts and capitals of his archi ...
... facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imi- tated in the slender shafts and capitals of his archi ...
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... fact or series belongs . - The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in cata- combs , libraries , and the broken reliefs and torsos - What is ...
... fact or series belongs . - The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in cata- combs , libraries , and the broken reliefs and torsos - What is ...
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... facts in nature . I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the ... fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate ...
... facts in nature . I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the ... fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate ...
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