The Living Age, Volume 112E. Littell & Company, 1872 |
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... fact , whatever the freethinkers of Greece discovered success- ively as the first principles of Being and Thought ... facts , hidden under a thin veil of allegory . --- Sokrates , as is well known , looked upon such attempts at ...
... fact , whatever the freethinkers of Greece discovered success- ively as the first principles of Being and Thought ... facts , hidden under a thin veil of allegory . --- Sokrates , as is well known , looked upon such attempts at ...
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... fact , the real question which a philosophy of mythology has to answer is this . Is the whole of mythology an invention , the fanciful poetry of a Ho- mer or Hesiod or is it a growth ? Or to speak more definitely , Was mythology a mere ...
... fact , the real question which a philosophy of mythology has to answer is this . Is the whole of mythology an invention , the fanciful poetry of a Ho- mer or Hesiod or is it a growth ? Or to speak more definitely , Was mythology a mere ...
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... fact , a kind of Peter Schlemihl . † ancient poetry some remnants of the nat- Let us now return to mythology in the ural awe with which the earliest dwellers narrower sense of the word . One of the on the earth saw that brilliant being ...
... fact , a kind of Peter Schlemihl . † ancient poetry some remnants of the nat- Let us now return to mythology in the ural awe with which the earliest dwellers narrower sense of the word . One of the on the earth saw that brilliant being ...
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... fact does not cease longer that Ammarik must be the Gloam- to be a fact , because we cannot at once ex - ing , and that their meeting in the summer plain it . As far as our knowledge goes reflects those summer evenings when , par- at ...
... fact does not cease longer that Ammarik must be the Gloam- to be a fact , because we cannot at once ex - ing , and that their meeting in the summer plain it . As far as our knowledge goes reflects those summer evenings when , par- at ...
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... fact , and an histori- cal fact of the greatest importance for the later development of ancient ideas . Think only of this one fact , which no one would now venture to doubt , that the supreme I AM writing this history for sensible ...
... fact , and an histori- cal fact of the greatest importance for the later development of ancient ideas . Think only of this one fact , which no one would now venture to doubt , that the supreme I AM writing this history for sensible ...
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Page 71 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 141 - ... because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over, and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason of the thing ; and when reason comes he will recognize and salute her as a friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.
Page 286 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 75 - Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense, (as they may by...
Page 50 - Free love — free field — we love but while we may: The woods are hush'd, their music is no more: The leaf is dead, the yearning past away: New leaf, new life — the days of frost are o'er: New life, new love to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love, — free field — we love but while we may.
Page 412 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 258 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Page 70 - Add that whate'er of terror or of love Or beauty, Nature's daily face put on From transitory passion, unto this I was as sensitive as waters are To the sky's influence in a kindred mood Of passion ; was obedient as a lute That waits upon the touches of the wind.
Page 381 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand ; "Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain. They call us' to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 411 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.