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... nature passed through the alembic of man . Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works . The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I call an ...
... nature passed through the alembic of man . Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works . The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I call an ...
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... nature . It surely does not . God never jests with us , and will not com- promise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession . Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man . Their ...
... nature . It surely does not . God never jests with us , and will not com- promise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession . Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man . Their ...
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... nature is to stand as the apparition of God . It is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual , and strives to lead back the individual to it . When we consider Spirit , we see that the views already ...
... nature is to stand as the apparition of God . It is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual , and strives to lead back the individual to it . When we consider Spirit , we see that the views already ...
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The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
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