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The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts and is inflamed with passion or exalted by thought , it clothes itself in images . A man conversing in earnest , if he watch his intellectual processes , will find ...
The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts and is inflamed with passion or exalted by thought , it clothes itself in images . A man conversing in earnest , if he watch his intellectual processes , will find ...
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For it pervades Thought also . Every universal truth which we express in words , implies or supposes every other truth . Omne verum vero consonat ( Every truth harmonizes with every other ) . It is like a great circle on a sphere ...
For it pervades Thought also . Every universal truth which we express in words , implies or supposes every other truth . Omne verum vero consonat ( Every truth harmonizes with every other ) . It is like a great circle on a sphere ...
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The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius . Speak your latent conviction ...
The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius . Speak your latent conviction ...
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| Title | American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860 Volume 2 of American Literature Survey, Milton R. Stern Viking portable library |
| Editors | Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross |
| Compiled by | Seymour L. Gross |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Viking Press, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Oct 2007 |
| ISBN | 0670018880, 9780670018888 |
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