Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence of the sublime . Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve ...
... give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence of the sublime . Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve ...
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... give them no title . To speak truly , few adult persons can see Nature . Most persons do not see the sun ; at least , they have a very superficial seeing . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man , but Nature . 9.
... give them no title . To speak truly , few adult persons can see Nature . Most persons do not see the sun ; at least , they have a very superficial seeing . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man , but Nature . 9.
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... give us a delight in and for themselves ; a pleasure arising from outline , colour , motion , and grouping . This seems partly owing to the eye itself . The eye is the best of artists . By the mutual action of its structure , and of the ...
... give us a delight in and for themselves ; a pleasure arising from outline , colour , motion , and grouping . This seems partly owing to the eye itself . The eye is the best of artists . By the mutual action of its structure , and of the ...
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... Give me health and a day , and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous . The dawn is my Assyria : the sunset and moon- rise my Paphos , and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the ...
... Give me health and a day , and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous . The dawn is my Assyria : the sunset and moon- rise my Paphos , and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the ...
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... give us aid in supernatural history . The use of the outer creation is to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation . Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is ...
... give us aid in supernatural history . The use of the outer creation is to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation . Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is ...
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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