Essays, Orations and LecturesWilliam Tegg and Company, 1848 - 385 páginas |
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... mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind , history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less ...
... mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind , history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less ...
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... 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 relation between the hours of our life and the ...
... 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 relation between the hours of our life and the ...
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... , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent . He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry . and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind 4 ESSAYS .
... , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent . He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry . and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind 4 ESSAYS .
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... mind . What it We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History - only Biography ...
... mind . What it We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History - only Biography ...
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... mind . Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if they do not awaken the same train of images , will yet ...
... mind . Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if they do not awaken the same train of images , will yet ...
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