Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... find a theory of Nature . We have theories of races and of functions , but scarcely yet a remote approximation to an idea of creation . We are now so far from the road to truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and ...
... find a theory of Nature . We have theories of races and of functions , but scarcely yet a remote approximation to an idea of creation . We are now so far from the road to truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and ...
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... 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 . The greatest delight which the ...
... 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 . The greatest delight which the ...
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... find it , and it is gone : ' tis only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence . 2. The presence of a higher , namely , of the spiritual element , is essential to its perfection . The high and divine beauty which can be loved ...
... find it , and it is gone : ' tis only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence . 2. The presence of a higher , namely , of the spiritual element , is essential to its perfection . The high and divine beauty which can be loved ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. carnest , if he watch his intellectual processes , will find that always a material image , more or less luminous , arises in his mind , contemporaneous with every thought , which furnishes the vestment of the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. carnest , if he watch his intellectual processes , will find that always a material image , more or less luminous , arises in his mind , contemporaneous with every thought , which furnishes the vestment of the ...
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... find a ground unconditioned and absolute . " It proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena , which , being known , the phenomena can be pre- dicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea . Its beauty is infinite . The ...
... find a ground unconditioned and absolute . " It proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena , which , being known , the phenomena can be pre- dicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea . Its beauty is infinite . The ...
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action American astronomy beauty becomes behold better CHARLES GRIFFIN church cloth common divine doctrine duties earth Edinburgh Review effeminacy eternal evermore exist fact faculties faith fear feel Feudalism forms garden genius give Goethe Greece hath heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope hour human idea ideal theory infinite inspiration instantly intellect Justice and Truth labour land landscape language lative laws light live look LORD BROUGHAM manual labour matter means ment mind moral Nature never noble objects perfect persons philosophy Pindar plant Plato Plotinus poet poetry poor present reason relation religion rich scholar seems seen sense sentiment shines society solitude soul speak spirit stand stars sublime things thou thought tion trade true truth universal virtue whilst whole WILLIAM COBBETT wisdom wise words worship Zoroaster