Essays and remains, ed. with a mem. by R. Vaughan, Том 2 |
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... King Pluto . It is yet more so , in the higher provinces of thought , to trace the transmigration of error or of truth into forms familiar to a later age , and to observe the resump- tion , as in a new element , of conflicts apparently ...
... King Pluto . It is yet more so , in the higher provinces of thought , to trace the transmigration of error or of truth into forms familiar to a later age , and to observe the resump- tion , as in a new element , of conflicts apparently ...
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... king of the city ; by the fact of its ethereal parentage , the leader and lord of all around it , though it knows it not ? A child as yet , it lies upon the fragrant bosom of its mother , Nature , the nurse and yet the enemy of man ...
... king of the city ; by the fact of its ethereal parentage , the leader and lord of all around it , though it knows it not ? A child as yet , it lies upon the fragrant bosom of its mother , Nature , the nurse and yet the enemy of man ...
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... king builds his tower of speculation by the hands of human workmen till he reaches the top story , and then summons his genii to fashion the battlements of adamant , and crown them with starry fire . Plotinus , wrapt in his proud ...
... king builds his tower of speculation by the hands of human workmen till he reaches the top story , and then summons his genii to fashion the battlements of adamant , and crown them with starry fire . Plotinus , wrapt in his proud ...
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... King of Monopotama , which is greeted by shouts in the ante - chamber , shouts in the palace - yard , shouts in the city - streets , -announced and reverberated by a thousand loyal voices ; but bold recusant Sydney Smith can watch ...
... King of Monopotama , which is greeted by shouts in the ante - chamber , shouts in the palace - yard , shouts in the city - streets , -announced and reverberated by a thousand loyal voices ; but bold recusant Sydney Smith can watch ...
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... King , and State allured by this principle of vicarious labour , but the pot - boy has a lower pot - boy , who , for a small portion of the small gains of his principal , arranges , with inexhaustible sedulity , the sub- divided ...
... King , and State allured by this principle of vicarious labour , but the pot - boy has a lower pot - boy , who , for a small portion of the small gains of his principal , arranges , with inexhaustible sedulity , the sub- divided ...
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