Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 29
... sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the do- minion of facts , as one that comes ...
... sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the do- minion of facts , as one that comes ...
Page 39
... sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato ...
... sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato ...
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... sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time , and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another . There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ...
... sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time , and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another . There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ...
Page 56
... sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and proceeds obvious- ly from the same source whence their life ...
... sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and proceeds obvious- ly from the same source whence their life ...
Page 92
... senses , we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character . The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem , -how to detach the sensual sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright ...
... senses , we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character . The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem , -how to detach the sensual sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright ...
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