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Page 11
... carry passengers . A house manifests the thought of the builder ; but its use is to live in . Some objects , however , are not only like discourse in expressing thought but in existing for that very end . The Angelus and the Statue of ...
... carry passengers . A house manifests the thought of the builder ; but its use is to live in . Some objects , however , are not only like discourse in expressing thought but in existing for that very end . The Angelus and the Statue of ...
Page 31
... carry on their face a distinct moral purpose were supposed to be idle and useless . Spenser yielded to this and tried to expound a system of ethics in a poem ; whereas , if he had been true to his own instincts and impulses his Faery ...
... carry on their face a distinct moral purpose were supposed to be idle and useless . Spenser yielded to this and tried to expound a system of ethics in a poem ; whereas , if he had been true to his own instincts and impulses his Faery ...
Page 53
... carry on the life process of the tree as a whole . The parts of the human body contribute to one life process , and are not parts except in and through the whole ; and the whole is not a whole except in and through the parts . The ...
... carry on the life process of the tree as a whole . The parts of the human body contribute to one life process , and are not parts except in and through the whole ; and the whole is not a whole except in and through the parts . The ...
Page 65
... carried a shiver everywhere From the unleafed boughs and pastures bare ; The little brook heard it and built a roof ' Neath which he could house him winter - proof ; All night by the white stars ' frosty gleams He groined his arches and ...
... carried a shiver everywhere From the unleafed boughs and pastures bare ; The little brook heard it and built a roof ' Neath which he could house him winter - proof ; All night by the white stars ' frosty gleams He groined his arches and ...
Page 69
... carried along together . In doing this the two methods should be kept distinct . A point of likeness may be given , and then a corresponding point of dif- ference , thus carrying the likenesses and differences in parallel lines . Or all ...
... carried along together . In doing this the two methods should be kept distinct . A point of likeness may be given , and then a corresponding point of dif- ference , thus carrying the likenesses and differences in parallel lines . Or all ...
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