Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 19
... manner , all public facts are to be individ- ualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals ...
... manner , all public facts are to be individ- ualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals ...
Page 23
... manners is that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteris- tics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still ...
... manners is that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteris- tics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still ...
Page 78
... manner the reformers summon conventions , and vote and resolve in multitude . Not so , O friends ! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you , but by a method precisely the reverse . It is only as a man puts off all foreign support ...
... manner the reformers summon conventions , and vote and resolve in multitude . Not so , O friends ! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you , but by a method precisely the reverse . It is only as a man puts off all foreign support ...
Page 84
... manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment . He assumed , that judgment is not executed in this world ; that the wicked are successful ; that the good are miserable ; and then urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made ...
... manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment . He assumed , that judgment is not executed in this world ; that the wicked are successful ; that the good are miserable ; and then urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made ...
Page 92
... manner ; first , in the thing , or in real nature ; and secondly , in the circum- stance , or in apparent nature . Men call the cir- cumstance the retribution . The causal retribution is in the thing , and is seen by the soul . The ...
... manner ; first , in the thing , or in real nature ; and secondly , in the circum- stance , or in apparent nature . Men call the cir- cumstance the retribution . The causal retribution is in the thing , and is seen by the soul . The ...
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