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Page 518
... human beings join with him , rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion . Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all ...
... human beings join with him , rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion . Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all ...
Page 802
... human , and that which commences with the human to reason up to the divine . For though the mere abstract expression of the infinite , when regarded as indicating nothing more than the negation of limitation , and therefore of ...
... human , and that which commences with the human to reason up to the divine . For though the mere abstract expression of the infinite , when regarded as indicating nothing more than the negation of limitation , and therefore of ...
Page 1052
... human thought has put forward as answers . The answers given by the human race in its infancy , the presumptuous answers which assumed in one form or another that terrestrial life was the sole reason for the existence of the myriads of ...
... human thought has put forward as answers . The answers given by the human race in its infancy , the presumptuous answers which assumed in one form or another that terrestrial life was the sole reason for the existence of the myriads of ...
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Aesop agen beautiful better boat called Captain Church Crito Ctesippus dear death delight earth enemy England English eyes face fair Falstaff father feel flowers FRANCIS VERE Froissart's Chronicles garden gentleman give ground Guenever hand hath haue head hear heard heart heaven honour Jocelin John King knew knyght kyng labour Lady learned light live look Lord Lothair Makbeth master Messrs mind moche morning nature never night noble passed Pembroke College person Plato pleasure praye Prince Redgauntlet Robert of Scotland sayd sche seemed ship side sight silence sonne soul spirit stood sweet talk tell Temse thanne thee therfore things thou thought tion told took town trees turned uncle Toby unto vnto voice walked whan whole wind woman word wyll young