Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. Genius studies the causal thought, and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one ...
... soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. Genius studies the causal thought, and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one ...
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... LOVE . 159 VI . FRIENDSHIP 181 VII . PRUDENCE 207 VIII . HEROISM 231 IX . THE OVER - SOUL 249 X. CIRCLES 279 XI . INTELLECT 301 XII . ART . 325 HISTORY . THERE is no great and no small To PAGE CONTENTS PAGE CONTENTS PAGE.
... LOVE . 159 VI . FRIENDSHIP 181 VII . PRUDENCE 207 VIII . HEROISM 231 IX . THE OVER - SOUL 249 X. CIRCLES 279 XI . INTELLECT 301 XII . ART . 325 HISTORY . THERE is no great and no small To PAGE CONTENTS PAGE CONTENTS PAGE.
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... souls with that which they are . " And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its ... soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man ...
... souls with that which they are . " And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its ... soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man ...
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... soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one , why should I measure degrees of latitude , why The student ...
... soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one , why should I measure degrees of latitude , why The student ...
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... soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has ...
... soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has ...
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