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... rock on which the traveller may rest himself while he looks around over a space of sixty miles in almost every direction . The valley is the most attractive object , the full river coiling through the meadows , and the spires of village ...
... rock on which the traveller may rest himself while he looks around over a space of sixty miles in almost every direction . The valley is the most attractive object , the full river coiling through the meadows , and the spires of village ...
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... rock and soil , bristling with pine - trunks and upturned roots , half hid by a rank new vegetation , which will in ... rocks were capriciously tumbled to- gether , 62 WESTERN TRAVEL .
... rock and soil , bristling with pine - trunks and upturned roots , half hid by a rank new vegetation , which will in ... rocks were capriciously tumbled to- gether , 62 WESTERN TRAVEL .
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... rock on the right hand , and a steep mountain on the left . When we were through , and had rejoined our wagon , my attention was directed to the Profile - an object which explains itself in being named . The sharp rock certainly ...
... rock on the right hand , and a steep mountain on the left . When we were through , and had rejoined our wagon , my attention was directed to the Profile - an object which explains itself in being named . The sharp rock certainly ...
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... rock , rounded and smoothed as if by art . Here the eddying water , green as the Niagara floods , carries leaves and twigs round and round , in perpetual swift motion , a portion of the waters brimming over the lower edge of the great ...
... rock , rounded and smoothed as if by art . Here the eddying water , green as the Niagara floods , carries leaves and twigs round and round , in perpetual swift motion , a portion of the waters brimming over the lower edge of the great ...
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... rocks jutted out for the waves to break upon , the spray dashing to a great height ; on the interval of smooth sand ... rock , where the sea flows in ; -one of those fissures which , as Dr. Channing told me , are a puzzle to geologists ...
... rocks jutted out for the waves to break upon , the spray dashing to a great height ; on the interval of smooth sand ... rock , where the sea flows in ; -one of those fissures which , as Dr. Channing told me , are a puzzle to geologists ...
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Página 233 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the "familiar, the low.
Página 229 - Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth, Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action.
Página 229 - 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. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths?
Página 21 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Página 233 - The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign, is it not?
Página 21 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue...
Página 236 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be a 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? Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.
Página 233 - 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 ; show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk, in these suburbs and extremities of nature; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law...
Página 231 - Long he must stammer in his speech; often forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept, — how often! poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting the fashions, the education, the religion of society, he takes the cross of making his own, and, of course, the self-accusation, the faint heart, the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which...