The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary PortraitsG. Richards, 1904 - 271 стор. |
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... universe , not lording it over it ; a thoughtful spectator of the scenes of life , or ruminator on the fate of mankind , not a painted pageant , a stupid idol set up on its pedestal of pride for men to fall down and worship with idiot ...
... universe , not lording it over it ; a thoughtful spectator of the scenes of life , or ruminator on the fate of mankind , not a painted pageant , a stupid idol set up on its pedestal of pride for men to fall down and worship with idiot ...
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... universe . By aiming at too much , by dismissing collateral aids , by extending itself to the farthest verge of the conceivable and possible , it loses its elasticity and vigour , its impulse and its direction . The moralist can no more ...
... universe . By aiming at too much , by dismissing collateral aids , by extending itself to the farthest verge of the conceivable and possible , it loses its elasticity and vigour , its impulse and its direction . The moralist can no more ...
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... universe , and divide it into two parts , he knows all that it has been ; all that it is to be is nothing to him . His is a mind brooding over antiquity - scorning ' the present ignorant time . ' He is laudator temporis acti ' — a ...
... universe , and divide it into two parts , he knows all that it has been ; all that it is to be is nothing to him . His is a mind brooding over antiquity - scorning ' the present ignorant time . ' He is laudator temporis acti ' — a ...
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