On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History ...Chapman & Hall, 1897 - 255 pages |
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... Fancy , in comparison with that awful Fact and scientific certainty which it poetically strives to emblem . The Allegory is the product of the certainty , not the producer of it ; not in Bunyan's nor in any other case . For Paganism ...
... Fancy , in comparison with that awful Fact and scientific certainty which it poetically strives to emblem . The Allegory is the product of the certainty , not the producer of it ; not in Bunyan's nor in any other case . For Paganism ...
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... fancy of Plato's , of a man who had grown to maturity in some dark distance , and was brought on a sudden into the upper air to see the sun rise . What would his wonder be , his rapt astonishment at the sight we daily witness with ...
... fancy of Plato's , of a man who had grown to maturity in some dark distance , and was brought on a sudden into the upper air to see the sun rise . What would his wonder be , his rapt astonishment at the sight we daily witness with ...
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... fancy , was such a man . A Teacher , and Captain of soul and of body ; a Hero , of worth immeasurable ; admiration for whom , transcending the known bounds , became adoration . Has he not the power of articulate Thinking ; and many ...
... fancy , was such a man . A Teacher , and Captain of soul and of body ; a Hero , of worth immeasurable ; admiration for whom , transcending the known bounds , became adoration . Has he not the power of articulate Thinking ; and many ...
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... Fancy your own generous heart's - love of some greatest man expanding till it transcended all bounds , till it filled and overflowed the whole field of your thought ! Or what if this man Odin , —since a great deep soul , with the ...
... Fancy your own generous heart's - love of some greatest man expanding till it transcended all bounds , till it filled and overflowed the whole field of your thought ! Or what if this man Odin , —since a great deep soul , with the ...
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... fancy him to be the Type Norseman ; the finest Teuton whom that race had yet produced . The rude Norse heart burst - up into boundless admiration round him ; into adoration . He is as a root of so many great things ; the fruit of him is ...
... fancy him to be the Type Norseman ; the finest Teuton whom that race had yet produced . The rude Norse heart burst - up into boundless admiration round him ; into adoration . He is as a root of so many great things ; the fruit of him is ...
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