Essays: First series, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - 343 páginas |
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... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as ...
... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as ...
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... spirit to the man- ifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
... spirit to the man- ifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
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... Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY .
... Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY .
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... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity . It has been said ...
... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity . It has been said ...
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... spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phœbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities ...
... spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phœbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities ...
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