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... lived and philosophy . The principle of evolution , worked is vividly pictured . From that so early broached and so long discredited , sketch , and from Darwin's own letters , has now at last been proclaimed and ac- the reader may ...
... lived and philosophy . The principle of evolution , worked is vividly pictured . From that so early broached and so long discredited , sketch , and from Darwin's own letters , has now at last been proclaimed and ac- the reader may ...
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... lived in Algeria thus : " Canon Taylor has constructed , at the expense of Christianity , a rose - colored picture of Islam , by a process of comparison in which Christianity is arraigned for failures in practice , of which Christendom ...
... lived in Algeria thus : " Canon Taylor has constructed , at the expense of Christianity , a rose - colored picture of Islam , by a process of comparison in which Christianity is arraigned for failures in practice , of which Christendom ...
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... lived serves only to mask or to destroy his indi- among the natives , have studied their viduality ; and , in the Muslim and pagan manners , have endeavored to sympathize communities of the interior , where a white with and understand ...
... lived serves only to mask or to destroy his indi- among the natives , have studied their viduality ; and , in the Muslim and pagan manners , have endeavored to sympathize communities of the interior , where a white with and understand ...
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... lived in a state of nakedness , or nearly so , begin to dress , and that neatly ; natives who have never washed before begin to wash , and that frequently ; for ablutions are commanded in the sacred law , and it is an ordinance rodotus ...
... lived in a state of nakedness , or nearly so , begin to dress , and that neatly ; natives who have never washed before begin to wash , and that frequently ; for ablutions are commanded in the sacred law , and it is an ordinance rodotus ...
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... lived in a state its train , there have arisen those great of nakedness , or nearly so , begin to dress , cities of Negroland , whose very existence , and that neatly ; natives who have never when first they were described by Euro ...
... lived in a state its train , there have arisen those great of nakedness , or nearly so , begin to dress , cities of Negroland , whose very existence , and that neatly ; natives who have never when first they were described by Euro ...
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Page 218 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 413 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 361 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 430 - Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns!
Page 371 - IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, "Enough! Thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet.
Page 371 - Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work ; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it. In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess.
Page 412 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 371 - I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit.
Page 260 - There is a passage in Hogg's capitally written and most interesting account of Shelley which I wrote down when I first read it and have borne in mind ever since; so beautifully it seemed to render the true Shelley. Hogg has been speaking of the intellectual expression of Shelley's features, and he goes on: "Nor was the moral expression less beautiful than the intellectual; for there was a softness, a delicacy, a gentleness, and especially (though this will surprise many) that air of profound religious...
Page 59 - But the truth is we are not to take Anna Karenine as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. A piece of life it is. The author has not invented and combined it, he has seen it; it has all happened before his inward eye, and it was in this wise that it happened.