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... common sense of mankind deficient in their account of conscience . The true method of inquiry is surely not to ask what such words as ' conscience , ' ' ought , ' duty , ' happiness , ' mean in the mind of a modern thinker , but to ...
... common sense of mankind deficient in their account of conscience . The true method of inquiry is surely not to ask what such words as ' conscience , ' ' ought , ' duty , ' happiness , ' mean in the mind of a modern thinker , but to ...
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... common - sense observations we are obliged to express ourselves with caution and reserve . One indubitable fact , however , stands out impressively amidst all the chaos , and affords us a sufficient stand - point for indicating the ...
... common - sense observations we are obliged to express ourselves with caution and reserve . One indubitable fact , however , stands out impressively amidst all the chaos , and affords us a sufficient stand - point for indicating the ...
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... common to all music : while a special rhythm may be common to several melodies , the identity being clearly marked and obvious to the ear . On 1878. ON MUSIC AND MUSICAL CRITICISM . 53.
... common to all music : while a special rhythm may be common to several melodies , the identity being clearly marked and obvious to the ear . On 1878. ON MUSIC AND MUSICAL CRITICISM . 53.
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... common to several melodies , good and bad : for it is only from a melody which in its total result strikes us as good that we get the specifically and dis- tinctively rhythmical pleasure , shown in an impulse to accompany it with real ...
... common to several melodies , good and bad : for it is only from a melody which in its total result strikes us as good that we get the specifically and dis- tinctively rhythmical pleasure , shown in an impulse to accompany it with real ...
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... common beyond the mere abstract sense of following . 6 In the Eroica I have taken an extreme instance of complexity , and each art with gathering complexity naturally becomes more differentiated . But happily we can have our songs and ...
... common beyond the mere abstract sense of following . 6 In the Eroica I have taken an extreme instance of complexity , and each art with gathering complexity naturally becomes more differentiated . But happily we can have our songs and ...
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Page 183 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 167 - Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave; Think ye he meant them for a slave...
Page 132 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Page 12 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 451 - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Page 537 - Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; And mine age is as nothing before thee : Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : Surely they are disquieted in vain : He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for ? My hope is in thee.
Page 131 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things : for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : and the land is defiled : therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 105 - Euclid's, and show by construction that its truth was known to us ; to demonstrate, for example, that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal...
Page 136 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 807 - Would want some other father ; — much design Is seen in all their motions, all their makes ; Design implies intelligence, and art ; That can't be from themselves — or man ; that art Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow ? And nothing greater yet allow'd than man.