Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesJ. R. Osgood, 1876 - 315 páginas |
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... hour , as much as they had delighted the sim- plicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we ... hour and season yields its tribute of delight ; for every hour me . - and change corresponds to and authorizes a ...
... hour , as much as they had delighted the sim- plicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we ... hour and season yields its tribute of delight ; for every hour me . - and change corresponds to and authorizes a ...
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... hour , as much as they had delighted the sim- plicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we ... hour and season yields its tribute of delight ; for every hour me . and change corresponds to and authorizes a ...
... hour , as much as they had delighted the sim- plicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we ... hour and season yields its tribute of delight ; for every hour me . and change corresponds to and authorizes a ...
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... hours , Nature satisfies by its loveliness , and without any mixture of corporeal benefit . I see the spectacle of morning from the hill - top over against my house , from daybreak to sunrise , with emotions which an angel might share ...
... hours , Nature satisfies by its loveliness , and without any mixture of corporeal benefit . I see the spectacle of morning from the hill - top over against my house , from daybreak to sunrise , with emotions which an angel might share ...
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... hour , a picture which was never seen before , and which shall never be seen again . The heavens change every moment ... hours , will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer . The tribes of birds and insects , like ...
... hour , a picture which was never seen before , and which shall never be seen again . The heavens change every moment ... hours , will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer . The tribes of birds and insects , like ...
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... hour , and is not reminded of the flux of all things ? Throw a stone into the stream , and the circles that propagate them- selves are the beautiful type of all influence . Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his indi ...
... hour , and is not reminded of the flux of all things ? Throw a stone into the stream , and the circles that propagate them- selves are the beautiful type of all influence . Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his indi ...
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Página 12 - Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God.
Página 54 - Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. "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...
Página 66 - In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Página 54 - And both, with moons and tides. Nothing hath got so far, But Man hath caught and kept it, as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest star ; He is, in little, all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there.
Página 58 - But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Página 70 - Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
Página 17 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Página 89 - Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides.
Página 78 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 27 - The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. 'The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.