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... IRON AND BRONZE CONVERSATION ON ENTHUSIASM SWEDENBORG HAWTHORNE LANDOR • SLEEP AND DREAMS . GENESIS AND LAPSE . AUGUST . PLATO'S LETTERS PLATO 213 217 PAGE PLATO'S METHOD SOCRATES BERKELEY 222 234 · 236 BOEHME vi CONTENTS .
... IRON AND BRONZE CONVERSATION ON ENTHUSIASM SWEDENBORG HAWTHORNE LANDOR • SLEEP AND DREAMS . GENESIS AND LAPSE . AUGUST . PLATO'S LETTERS PLATO 213 217 PAGE PLATO'S METHOD SOCRATES BERKELEY 222 234 · 236 BOEHME vi CONTENTS .
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Amos Bronson Alcott. PAGE PLATO'S METHOD SOCRATES BERKELEY 222 234 · 236 BOEHME 237 MR . WALTON'S LETTER COLERIDGE 240 CRABBE ROBINSON'S DIARY 245 • 246 SELDEN'S TABLE - TALK 249 • . WOMAN 253 SEPTEMBER . WALDEN POND • CHANNING's ...
Amos Bronson Alcott. PAGE PLATO'S METHOD SOCRATES BERKELEY 222 234 · 236 BOEHME 237 MR . WALTON'S LETTER COLERIDGE 240 CRABBE ROBINSON'S DIARY 245 • 246 SELDEN'S TABLE - TALK 249 • . WOMAN 253 SEPTEMBER . WALDEN POND • CHANNING's ...
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... Plato's saying as applicable to the superficial culture which this of itself fosters : " Total ignorance were in no wise a thing so vile and wicked , nor the greatest of evils ; but multifarious knowledge and learning acquired under bad ...
... Plato's saying as applicable to the superficial culture which this of itself fosters : " Total ignorance were in no wise a thing so vile and wicked , nor the greatest of evils ; but multifarious knowledge and learning acquired under bad ...
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... Plato makes him say , " For as men lead hungry creatures by holding out a green bough , or an apple , so you , Phædrus , it would seem , might lead me about all Attica , and , indeed , wherever else you please , by extending to me ...
... Plato makes him say , " For as men lead hungry creatures by holding out a green bough , or an apple , so you , Phædrus , it would seem , might lead me about all Attica , and , indeed , wherever else you please , by extending to me ...
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... Plato even failed to disentangle . " Either sex alone , " he said , " was but half itself . " Yet he did not complement the two in honorable marriage in his social polity . " If a house be rooted in wrong , " says Euripides , " it will ...
... Plato even failed to disentangle . " Either sex alone , " he said , " was but half itself . " Yet he did not complement the two in honorable marriage in his social polity . " If a house be rooted in wrong , " says Euripides , " it will ...
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Page 93 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Page 94 - The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did : is not this the Christ?
Page 79 - And teach her fair steps tread our Earth ; Till that divine Idea, take a shrine Of crystal flesh, through which to shine ; Meet you her, my wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
Page 93 - The woman answered, and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband ; 18 For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband : in that saidst thou truly.
Page 94 - The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ : when he is come he will tell us all things.
Page 54 - ... to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Page 142 - And many a mystic thing, Which the divine embraces Of the dear Spouse of Spirits with them will bring, For which it is no shame That dull mortality must not know a name...
Page 82 - Life, that dares send A challenge to his end. And when it comes, say, "Welcome, friend !" Sydneian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with flowers.
Page 81 - Smiles, that can warm The blood, yet teach a charm, That chastity shall take no harm. Blushes, that bin The burnish of no sin, Nor flames of aught too hot within. Joys, that confess Virtue their mistress, And have no other head to dress.
Page 35 - ... quality of pear or plum Ascends as gladly in a single tree As in broad orchards resonant with bees; And every atom poises for itself, And for the whole. The gentle deities Showed me the lore of colors and of sounds, 60 The innumerable tenements of beauty, The miracle of generative force, Far-reaching concords of astronomy Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds ; Better, the linked purpose of the whole.