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... Brain and Heart of Man — An Intellectual Spendthrift — V . The Baconian Theory — VI . Dramatists before and during the Time of Shakespeare — Dramatic Incidents Illustrated in Passages from " Mac- beth " and " Julius Cæsar " —VII . His ...
... Brain and Heart of Man — An Intellectual Spendthrift — V . The Baconian Theory — VI . Dramatists before and during the Time of Shakespeare — Dramatic Incidents Illustrated in Passages from " Mac- beth " and " Julius Cæsar " —VII . His ...
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... Brain - What he Mocked - The Weapon of Ridicule - His Theol- ogy - His " Retractions " -What Goethe said of Voltaire - IV . The Scheme of Nature - His belief in the Optimism of Pope Destroyed by the Lisbon Earthquake - V . His Humanity ...
... Brain - What he Mocked - The Weapon of Ridicule - His Theol- ogy - His " Retractions " -What Goethe said of Voltaire - IV . The Scheme of Nature - His belief in the Optimism of Pope Destroyed by the Lisbon Earthquake - V . His Humanity ...
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... brain , Genius is born . It may be that the mind , by lying fallow , by remaining idle for generations , gathers strength . Shakespeare's father seems to dinary man of his time and class . have been an or- About the only was officially ...
... brain , Genius is born . It may be that the mind , by lying fallow , by remaining idle for generations , gathers strength . Shakespeare's father seems to dinary man of his time and class . have been an or- About the only was officially ...
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... brain — that he died on the anniversary of his birth at the age of fifty - two , and that he was buried in the church where the images had been defaced , and that on his tomb was chiseled a rude , absurd and ignorant epitaph SHAKESPEARE .
... brain — that he died on the anniversary of his birth at the age of fifty - two , and that he was buried in the church where the images had been defaced , and that on his tomb was chiseled a rude , absurd and ignorant epitaph SHAKESPEARE .
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... brain and heart of man — the theories , customs , superstitions , hopes , fears , hatreds , vices and virtues of the human race . soar . He knew the thrills and ecstasies of love , the sav- age joys of hatred and revenge . He heard the ...
... brain and heart of man — the theories , customs , superstitions , hopes , fears , hatreds , vices and virtues of the human race . soar . He knew the thrills and ecstasies of love , the sav- age joys of hatred and revenge . He heard the ...
Contents
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GenerationSlaveryPrinciple Sacrificed to SuccessLincolns | 173 |
stealing ChildrenII The Days of YouthHis EducationChooses | 248 |
The History of Intellectual Progress is written in the Lives | 308 |
MartyrdomThe First to die for Truth without Expectation of | 395 |
BibleEstablishment of the Mosaic CodeMoses not the Author | 519 |
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Page 67 - I am dying, Egypt, dying ; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips.— Cleo.