Essays, Orations and LecturesWilliam Tegg and Company, 1848 - 385 páginas |
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... fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation ...
... fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation ...
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... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret ...
... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret ...
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... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combinations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day ; the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice ...
... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combinations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day ; the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice ...
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... fact that befalls - in the running river , and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows ... facts yield their secret sense , and poetry . and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind 4 ESSAYS .
... fact that befalls - in the running river , and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows ... facts yield their secret sense , and poetry . and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind 4 ESSAYS .
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... fact a fact . Babylon , and Troy , and Tyre , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction . The garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when ...
... fact a fact . Babylon , and Troy , and Tyre , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction . The garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when ...
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