Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... mean appear- ance . Neither does the wisest man extort all her secret , and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection . Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit . The flowers , the animals , the mountains , reflected all ...
... mean appear- ance . Neither does the wisest man extort all her secret , and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection . Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit . The flowers , the animals , the mountains , reflected all ...
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... mean egotism vanishes . I become a transparent eye- ball . I am nothing . I see all . The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God . The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and ...
... mean egotism vanishes . I become a transparent eye- ball . I am nothing . I see all . The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God . The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and ...
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... means of steam , he realises the fable of Æolus's bag , and carries the two - and - thirty winds in the boiler of his boat . To diminish friction , he paves the road with iron bars , and , mounting a coach with a ship - load of men ...
... means of steam , he realises the fable of Æolus's bag , and carries the two - and - thirty winds in the boiler of his boat . To diminish friction , he paves the road with iron bars , and , mounting a coach with a ship - load of men ...
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... mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer , so light is the first of painters . There is no object so foul , that intense light will not make beautiful . And ...
... mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer , so light is the first of painters . There is no object so foul , that intense light will not make beautiful . And ...
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... means straight ; wrong means twisted . Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression , the crossing of a line ; supercilious , the raising of the eye - brow . We say the heart to express emotion , the head to denote thought ; and thought ...
... means straight ; wrong means twisted . Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression , the crossing of a line ; supercilious , the raising of the eye - brow . We say the heart to express emotion , the head to denote thought ; and thought ...
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