Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 15
... 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 17
... mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place ...
... mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable ...
... mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable ...
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... mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of ...
... mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of ...
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