Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... expression of the earth from week to week . The succession of native plants in the pastures and road - sides , which make the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours , will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen ...
... expression of the earth from week to week . The succession of native plants in the pastures and road - sides , which make the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours , will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen ...
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... expression of Nature , in miniature . For although the works of Nature are innumerable and all different , the result or the expression of them all is similar and single . Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even a sunbeam , a ...
... expression of Nature , in miniature . For although the works of Nature are innumerable and all different , the result or the expression of them all is similar and single . Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even a sunbeam , a ...
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... expression for the universe . God is the all - fair . Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone ...
... expression for the universe . God is the all - fair . Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone ...
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... expression of particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did it need such noble races of creatures , this profusion of forms - this host of orbs in heaven - to furnish man with the diction ...
... expression of particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did it need such noble races of creatures , this profusion of forms - this host of orbs in heaven - to furnish man with the diction ...
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... accuracy , sharp outlines and coloured surfaces . When the eye of Reason opens , to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression . These proceed from imagination and affection , and abate somewhat 50 Nature .
... accuracy , sharp outlines and coloured surfaces . When the eye of Reason opens , to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression . These proceed from imagination and affection , and abate somewhat 50 Nature .
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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