Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 44
... seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child , I will live then from the Devil . " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily transfera- ble to that or this ; the only right is ...
... seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child , I will live then from the Devil . " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily transfera- ble to that or this ; the only right is ...
Page 50
... seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have ...
... seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have ...
Page 51
... seem . These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance , at a little height of thought . One tendency unites them all . The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks . See the line from a sufficient distance ...
... seem . These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance , at a little height of thought . One tendency unites them all . The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks . See the line from a sufficient distance ...
Page 53
... seem to follow his steps as a train of clients . A man Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Em- pire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius , that he is confounded with virtue and the ...
... seem to follow his steps as a train of clients . A man Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Em- pire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius , that he is confounded with virtue and the ...
Page 54
... seem to say like that , ' Who are you , Sir ? ' Yet they all are his , suitors for his no- tice , petitioners to his faculties that they will come out and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me , but ...
... seem to say like that , ' Who are you , Sir ? ' Yet they all are his , suitors for his no- tice , petitioners to his faculties that they will come out and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me , but ...
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