On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in HistoryChapman and Hall, 1840 - 303 pages |
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... fact with regard to him . A man's , or a nation of men's . By religion I do not mean here the church - creed which he professes , the articles of faith which he will sign and , in words or otherwise , assert ; not this wholly , in many ...
... fact with regard to him . A man's , or a nation of men's . By religion I do not mean here the church - creed which he professes , the articles of faith which he will sign and , in words or otherwise , assert ; not this wholly , in many ...
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... fact about them . In these Discourses , limited as we are , it will be good to direct our survey chiefly to that re- ligious phasis of the matter . That once known well , all is known . We have chosen as the first Hero in our series ...
... fact about them . In these Discourses , limited as we are , it will be good to direct our survey chiefly to that re- ligious phasis of the matter . That once known well , all is known . We have chosen as the first Hero in our series ...
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... fact that they did it . Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships , misbeliefs , men , made as we are , did actually hold by , and live at home in . This is strange . Yes , we may pause in sorrow and silence over the depths of ...
... fact that they did it . Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships , misbeliefs , men , made as we are , did actually hold by , and live at home in . This is strange . Yes , we may pause in sorrow and silence over the depths of ...
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... Fact and scientific certainty which it poetically strives to emblem . The Alle- gory is the product of the certainty ... facts ! It is no longer a reality , yet it was one . We ought to understand that this seeming cloudfield was reality ...
... Fact and scientific certainty which it poetically strives to emblem . The Alle- gory is the product of the certainty ... facts ! It is no longer a reality , yet it was one . We ought to understand that this seeming cloudfield was reality ...
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... fact at the heart of them ; that they too were not mendacious and distracted , but in their own poor way true and sane ! You remember that fancy of Plato's , of a man who had grown to maturity in some dark distance , and was brought on ...
... fact at the heart of them ; that they too were not mendacious and distracted , but in their own poor way true and sane ! You remember that fancy of Plato's , of a man who had grown to maturity in some dark distance , and was brought on ...
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