Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 27
... sense , is a Greek . Beautiful is the love of nature in the Philoctetes . But in reading those fine apostro- phes to sleep , to the stars , rocks , mountains , and waves , I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity ...
... sense , is a Greek . Beautiful is the love of nature in the Philoctetes . But in reading those fine apostro- phes to sleep , to the stars , rocks , mountains , and waves , I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity ...
Page 32
... sense , in whom a literal obedi- ence 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 dominion of facts , as one that comes ...
... sense , in whom a literal obedi- ence 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 dominion of facts , as one that comes ...
Page 43
... sense ; for always the inmost 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 , and ...
... sense ; for always the inmost 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 , and ...
Page 44
... 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 59
... 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 proceedeth ob- viously from the same source whence their ...
... 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 proceedeth ob- viously from the same source whence their ...
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