Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 11
... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become ... facts , and instinctively we at HISTORY . 11.
... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become ... facts , and instinctively we at HISTORY . 11.
Page 12
... fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for char- ity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is ...
... fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for char- ity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is ...
Page 13
... fact and circumstance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute na- ture , from the mountains and the lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from ...
... fact and circumstance , — in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute na- ture , from the mountains and the lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from ...
Page 14
... fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in ...
... fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in ...
Page 15
... facts of history in our private 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 ... fact in human HISTORY . 15.
... facts of history in our private 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 ... fact in human HISTORY . 15.
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