Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,Edward Moxon, 1840 - 360 pages |
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Page vii
... mankind , results from his being one more in the holy brotherhood , whose vocation it is to divest life of its material grossness and stooping tendencies , and to animate it with that power of turning all things to the beautiful and ...
... mankind , results from his being one more in the holy brotherhood , whose vocation it is to divest life of its material grossness and stooping tendencies , and to animate it with that power of turning all things to the beautiful and ...
Page viii
... mankind has exerted so much influence over the world as Plato . From him the fathers and commentators of early Chris- tianity derived many of their most abstruse notions and spiritual ideas . His name is familiar to our lips , and he is ...
... mankind has exerted so much influence over the world as Plato . From him the fathers and commentators of early Chris- tianity derived many of their most abstruse notions and spiritual ideas . His name is familiar to our lips , and he is ...
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... mankind , and Christianity , in its abstract purity , became the exoteric expression of the eso- teric doctrines of the poetry and wisdom of anti- quity . The incorporation of the Celtic nations with the exhausted population of the ...
... mankind , and Christianity , in its abstract purity , became the exoteric expression of the eso- teric doctrines of the poetry and wisdom of anti- quity . The incorporation of the Celtic nations with the exhausted population of the ...
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... mankind . Yet it is easy to calculate the degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited , had they never lived . A little more nonsense would have been talked for a century or two ; and perhaps a few ...
... mankind . Yet it is easy to calculate the degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited , had they never lived . A little more nonsense would have been talked for a century or two ; and perhaps a few ...
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... mankind ? From what other cause has it arisen that the discoveries which should have lightened , have added a weight to the curse imposed on Adam ? Poetry , and the princi- ple of Self , of which money is the visible incarna- tion , are ...
... mankind ? From what other cause has it arisen that the discoveries which should have lightened , have added a weight to the curse imposed on Adam ? Poetry , and the princi- ple of Self , of which money is the visible incarna- tion , are ...
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