Essays, Lectures and OrationsW. S. Orr & Company, 1848 - 364 páginas |
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... so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is this universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is 2 ESSAYS .
... so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is this universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is 2 ESSAYS .
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... particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out ...
... particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out ...
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... particular ray . Bravely let him speak the utmost syllable of his confession . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents . It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good ...
... particular ray . Bravely let him speak the utmost syllable of his confession . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents . It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good ...
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... particular which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not ...
... particular which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not ...
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... particular miracles disappear . This is and must be . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you back- ward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country , in another world , believe ...
... particular miracles disappear . This is and must be . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you back- ward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country , in another world , believe ...
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abstrac action affections appear astronomy beauty becomes behold better black event Bonduca character church Conservatism conversation divine doctrine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist fact faculties faith fear feel genius give hand heart heaven honour hope hour human idea inspiration intellect labour light live look man's manual labour means mind moral nature never noble object Parliament of Love perception perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence racter reason reform relation religion rich scholar seems seen sense sentiment shines society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent teach thee things thou thought tion tism to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal Uranus virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words worship Xenophon Zoroaster
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Página 186 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 30 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Página 194 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Página ix - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Página 344 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit, not to be reckoned one character — - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Página 344 - What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Página 230 - For us the winds do blow; The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws; Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause.
Página 196 - Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 344 - The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Página 342 - What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body...