Essays, Lectures and OrationsWilliam S. Orr, 1848 - 364 páginas |
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... reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We as we read must be- come ...
... reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We as we read must be- come ...
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... Reform . We must call the highest prudence to counsel , and ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception , rather than the rule of human nature ? We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of ...
... Reform . We must call the highest prudence to counsel , and ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception , rather than the rule of human nature ? We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of ...
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... reform aims , in some one particular , to let the great soul have its way through us ; in other words , to engage us to obey . Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible . Language cannot paint it with his colours . It is ...
... reform aims , in some one particular , to let the great soul have its way through us ; in other words , to engage us to obey . Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible . Language cannot paint it with his colours . It is ...
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... reforms is at hand , and the like ; when we mean , that in the nature of things , one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive , and the other is permanent and connate with the soul . The things we now esteem fixed , shall ...
... reforms is at hand , and the like ; when we mean , that in the nature of things , one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive , and the other is permanent and connate with the soul . The things we now esteem fixed , shall ...
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... reform . But some Petrarch or Ariosto , filled with the new wine of his imagination , writes me an ode , or a brisk romance , full of daring thought and action . He smites and arouses me with his shrill tones , breaks up my M 2 CIRCLES ...
... reform . But some Petrarch or Ariosto , filled with the new wine of his imagination , writes me an ode , or a brisk romance , full of daring thought and action . He smites and arouses me with his shrill tones , breaks up my M 2 CIRCLES ...
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