Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 9
... mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic 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 ...
... mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic 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 ...
Page 10
... of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by 10 ESSAY I.
... of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by 10 ESSAY I.
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... mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight ...
... mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight ...
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... mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . ---- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form ...
... mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . ---- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form ...
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... mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs of the ...
... mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs of the ...
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