The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 2Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1844 - American literature |
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Art is to him but as a means . In his voca- which we have to premise ; but we will not do this without first avowing his incontestable merits , merits which at the present day are as important as they are rare , which in him are so ...
Art is to him but as a means . In his voca- which we have to premise ; but we will not do this without first avowing his incontestable merits , merits which at the present day are as important as they are rare , which in him are so ...
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This is the only means we possess of recognizing to plead , distinctly enough , the falseness of the truth , Mr. Carlyle adopts one alone - the idea which rules the movement of the times . * first . He rejects , or at least wholly ...
This is the only means we possess of recognizing to plead , distinctly enough , the falseness of the truth , Mr. Carlyle adopts one alone - the idea which rules the movement of the times . * first . He rejects , or at least wholly ...
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... view it may indeed appear to acknow - without right and without reality , that they ledge human spontaneity , yet does emphati- already possess a complete knowledge of the cally involve its oblivion , and sacrifices , in its means .
... view it may indeed appear to acknow - without right and without reality , that they ledge human spontaneity , yet does emphati- already possess a complete knowledge of the cally involve its oblivion , and sacrifices , in its means .
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GOD and DUTY - these are in fact the two sacred words which mankind has in all critical periods re- peated , and which at the present day still con- tain the means of salvation . But we must know in what manner these words are under- ...
GOD and DUTY - these are in fact the two sacred words which mankind has in all critical periods re- peated , and which at the present day still con- tain the means of salvation . But we must know in what manner these words are under- ...
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By whom tween the will and the power , disenchant- then will God provide means upon earth un- ment , discouragement , —such constitute life , less by us ? are we not his agents here be- when looked at only from the individual low ?
By whom tween the will and the power , disenchant- then will God provide means upon earth un- ment , discouragement , —such constitute life , less by us ? are we not his agents here be- when looked at only from the individual low ?
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| Title | The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 2 |
| Contributors | Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Publisher | Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1844 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2017 |
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