Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... character soever , into a well coloured and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer , so light is the ...
... character soever , into a well coloured and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer , so light is the ...
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... character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , -- the persons , the opinions , and the day , and Nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty ...
... character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , -- the persons , the opinions , and the day , and Nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty ...
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... character , that is , upon his love of truth , and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the cor- ruption of language . When simplicity of char- acter , and the sovereignty of ideas is broken ...
... character , that is , upon his love of truth , and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the cor- ruption of language . When simplicity of char- acter , and the sovereignty of ideas is broken ...
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... characters are not significant of themselves . Have moun- tains , and waves , and skies , no significance but what we consciously give them , when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic . Parts of speech are ...
... characters are not significant of themselves . Have moun- tains , and waves , and skies , no significance but what we consciously give them , when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic . Parts of speech are ...
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... character and fortune of the indi- vidual is affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know that ...
... character and fortune of the indi- vidual is affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know that ...
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