Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 917
... ideas , and is rightly called an intellectual enlarge- ment , whatever is meant by the term . And so again , the sight of beasts of prey and other for- eign animals , their strangeness , the originality ( if I may use the term ) of ...
... ideas , and is rightly called an intellectual enlarge- ment , whatever is meant by the term . And so again , the sight of beasts of prey and other for- eign animals , their strangeness , the originality ( if I may use the term ) of ...
Page 919
... ideas hitherto unknown to it , but in the mind's energetic and simultaneous action upon and to- wards and among those new ideas , which are rushing in upon it . It is the action of a formative power , reducing to order and meaning the ...
... ideas hitherto unknown to it , but in the mind's energetic and simultaneous action upon and to- wards and among those new ideas , which are rushing in upon it . It is the action of a formative power , reducing to order and meaning the ...
Page 920
... idea beyond itself . Nothing has a drift or relation ; nothing has a history or a promise . Every- thing stands by itself , and comes and goes in its turn , like the shifting scenes of a show , which leave the spectator where he was ...
... idea beyond itself . Nothing has a drift or relation ; nothing has a history or a promise . Every- thing stands by itself , and comes and goes in its turn , like the shifting scenes of a show , which leave the spectator where he was ...
Page 922
... ideas or dazzling projects ; who , under the influence of excitement , are able to cast a light , almost as if from inspiration , on a subject or course of action which comes before them ; who have a sudden presence of mind equal to any ...
... ideas or dazzling projects ; who , under the influence of excitement , are able to cast a light , almost as if from inspiration , on a subject or course of action which comes before them ; who have a sudden presence of mind equal to any ...
Page 924
... ideas . The mind , once set in motion , is henceforth deprived of the power of initia- tion , and becomes the victim ... idea to another and go steadily forward , plodding along one line of thought in spite of the amplest concessions of ...
... ideas . The mind , once set in motion , is henceforth deprived of the power of initia- tion , and becomes the victim ... idea to another and go steadily forward , plodding along one line of thought in spite of the amplest concessions of ...
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