Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 páginas |
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... earth , and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man ...
... earth , and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man ...
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... earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pre- tending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without ...
... earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pre- tending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without ...
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... . Such is Calvinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgianism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every- thing to the new terminology , that a girl does who has just learned botany , in seeing a new earth and 46 ESSAYS .
... . Such is Calvinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgianism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every- thing to the new terminology , that a girl does who has just learned botany , in seeing a new earth and 46 ESSAYS .
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... earth . In manly hours , we feel that duty is our place , and that the merrymen of circumstance should follow as they may . The soul is no traveller : the wise man stays at home with the soul ; and when his necessities , his duties , on ...
... earth . In manly hours , we feel that duty is our place , and that the merrymen of circumstance should follow as they may . The soul is no traveller : the wise man stays at home with the soul ; and when his necessities , his duties , on ...
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... earth is made of glass . Com- mit a crime , and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground , such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge , and fox , and squirrel , and mole . You cannot recall the spoken word , you ...
... earth is made of glass . Com- mit a crime , and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground , such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge , and fox , and squirrel , and mole . You cannot recall the spoken word , you ...
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Página 32 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 26 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Página 27 - Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Página 33 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 156 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 69 - 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 1 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 28 - ... what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul...
Página 60 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
Página 30 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.