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... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age , or state of society , or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Everything tends ...
... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age , or state of society , or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Everything tends ...
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... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
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... sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective but perfect in ...
... sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective but perfect in ...
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... 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 dominion of facts , as one that comes of ...
... 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 dominion of facts , as one that comes of ...
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... sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost , —and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judg- ment . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato ...
... sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost , —and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judg- ment . Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato ...
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