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... seem to have suggested themselves at the time when his powers were in their fullest vigor , it may fairly be supposed that he would , upon reconsideration , have admitted them . The tenth and eleventh vol- umes consist of lectures ...
... seem to have suggested themselves at the time when his powers were in their fullest vigor , it may fairly be supposed that he would , upon reconsideration , have admitted them . The tenth and eleventh vol- umes consist of lectures ...
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... seems partly owing to the eye itself . The eye is the best of artists . By the mutual action of its structure and of the laws of light , perspective is produced , which integrates every mass of objects , of what character soever , into ...
... seems partly owing to the eye itself . The eye is the best of artists . By the mutual action of its structure and of the laws of light , perspective is produced , which integrates every mass of objects , of what character soever , into ...
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... seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and restores their tone . The tradesman , the attorney comes out of the din and craft ...
... seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and restores their tone . The tradesman , the attorney comes out of the din and craft ...
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... seem to partake its rapid transformations ; the active enchantment reaches my dust , and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind . How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day , and I will make ...
... seem to partake its rapid transformations ; the active enchantment reaches my dust , and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind . How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day , and I will make ...
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... seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its tem- ple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the ...
... seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its tem- ple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the ...
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Página 15 - 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 parcel of God.
Página 16 - I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, — master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 61 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 92 - But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Página 89 - The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him, life; it went out from him, truth. It came to him, short-lived actions; it went out from him, immortal thoughts. It came to him, business; it went out from him, poetry. It was dead fact; now, it is quick thought.
Página 37 - At the call of a noble sentiment, again the woods wave, the pines murmur, the river rolls and shines, and the cattle low upon the mountains, as he saw and heard them in his infancy. And with these forms, the spells of persuasion, the keys of power are put into his hands.
Página 26 - We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every rational creature has all Nature for his dowry and estate. It is his if he will. He may divest himself of it ; he may creep into a corner and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion to the energy of his thought and will he takes up the world into himself. " All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue," said an ancient...
Página 33 - Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul he calls Reason : it is not mine, or thine, or his, but we are its; we are its property and men. And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried, the sky with its eternal calm, and full of everlasting orbs, is the type of Reason. That which intellectually considered we call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit. Spirit is the Creator. Spirit hath life in itself. And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his...
Página 42 - This use of the world includes the preceding uses, as parts of itself. Space, time, society, labor, climate, food, locomotion, the animals, the mechanical forces, give us sincerest lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. They educate both the Understanding and the Reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding, — its solidity or resistance, its inertia, its extension, its figure, its divisibility. The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures, and finds nutriment...
Página 68 - Therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.