Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 12
... things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the ...
... things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the ...
Page 13
... things ; at the centre there is sim- plicity of cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of ...
... things ; at the centre there is sim- plicity of cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of ...
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... things are in man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counter- part of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is ...
... things are in man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counter- part of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is ...
Page 23
... things have continued to be made in all ages , and are now , wherever a healthy physique ex- ists ; but , as a class , from their superior organization , they have surpassed all . They combine the energy of manhood with the engaging ...
... things have continued to be made in all ages , and are now , wherever a healthy physique ex- ists ; but , as a class , from their superior organization , they have surpassed all . They combine the energy of manhood with the engaging ...
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... things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude ...
... things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude ...
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