Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... 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 eye- ball . I am nothing . I see all . The currents of the Universal Being circulate ...
... 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 eye- ball . I am nothing . I see all . The currents of the Universal Being circulate ...
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... stand in the mind of God , and without the colours of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other in man , and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is ...
... stand in the mind of God , and without the colours of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other in man , and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is ...
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... beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must therefore stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . A THIRD use which Nature Beauty . 25.
... beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must therefore stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . A THIRD use which Nature Beauty . 25.
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... stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is em- ployed when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time , the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections . Hundreds of ...
... stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is em- ployed when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time , the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections . Hundreds of ...
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... stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the question , whether the characters are not significant of themselves . Have moun- tains , and waves , and skies , no significance but what we consciously give them , when we ...
... stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the question , whether the characters are not significant of themselves . Have moun- tains , and waves , and skies , no significance but what we consciously give them , when we ...
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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