Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 424
... genius . This is good , say they , let us hold by this . They pin me down . They look backward and not forward . But genius looks forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates ...
... genius . This is good , say they , let us hold by this . They pin me down . They look backward and not forward . But genius looks forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates ...
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... genius of the ancients . There is one man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life , whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated ; -I mean Emanuel Swedenborg . The most imaginative of men , yet writing with ...
... genius of the ancients . There is one man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life , whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated ; -I mean Emanuel Swedenborg . The most imaginative of men , yet writing with ...
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... genius were lighted in his boyhood from the gleam that died upon his father's sword . I have loved to follow and I love to follow now the pathway of that diamond pen as it flashed like an inspira- tion over every phase of life in ...
... genius were lighted in his boyhood from the gleam that died upon his father's sword . I have loved to follow and I love to follow now the pathway of that diamond pen as it flashed like an inspira- tion over every phase of life in ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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