Essays, Orations and LecturesWilliam Tegg and Company, 1848 - 385 páginas |
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... manner to abbreviate itself , and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but ...
... manner to abbreviate itself , and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but ...
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... manner of persons they were , and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture- the ...
... manner of persons they were , and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture- the ...
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... manners have the same essential splendour as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages ...
... manners have the same essential splendour as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages ...
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... manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature - all must be explained from individual ...
... manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature - all must be explained from individual ...
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... manner all public facts are to be individual- ized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of ...
... manner all public facts are to be individual- ized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of ...
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