The North American Review, Volume 4University of Northern Iowa, 1965 |
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Page 81
... nature , and left to them only to study and admire his werks , and eulogise their author . They found something prophetick in his name , and discovered by etymological analysis , that it signified the organ of truth . Scaliger calls him ...
... nature , and left to them only to study and admire his werks , and eulogise their author . They found something prophetick in his name , and discovered by etymological analysis , that it signified the organ of truth . Scaliger calls him ...
Page 222
... nature , and would erect an altar to him , in the good Old Testa- ment way . Natural productions should be the image of the world , and a flame burning upon these , should signify the spirit of man as ascending up in aspirations to his ...
... nature , and would erect an altar to him , in the good Old Testa- ment way . Natural productions should be the image of the world , and a flame burning upon these , should signify the spirit of man as ascending up in aspirations to his ...
Page 260
... nature , or events , or bodies of men , which either want personality or unity ; and hence the man , after fearful and desolating war , sometimes rises on the ruins of all the necessities of nature and all the pre- scriptions of society ...
... nature , or events , or bodies of men , which either want personality or unity ; and hence the man , after fearful and desolating war , sometimes rises on the ruins of all the necessities of nature and all the pre- scriptions of society ...
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