Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... admonishing smile . The stars awaken a certain reverence , because though always present , they are always inacces- sible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence 8.
... admonishing smile . The stars awaken a certain reverence , because though always present , they are always inacces- sible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence 8.
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... objects , It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter from the tree of the poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field ...
... objects , It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter from the tree of the poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field ...
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... objects , of what character soever , into a well coloured and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer ...
... objects , of what character soever , into a well coloured and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer ...
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... objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow ...
... objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow ...
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... object of the intellect . Beside the relation of things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colours of affection . The ...
... object of the intellect . Beside the relation of things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colours of affection . The ...
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