Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... thing of the soul ; nature being a thing which doth only do , but not know . " PLOTINUS . INTRODUCTION . OUR age is retrospective . It builds the sepul- chres of the fathers . It writes biographies , histories , and criticism . The ...
... thing of the soul ; nature being a thing which doth only do , but not know . " PLOTINUS . INTRODUCTION . OUR age is retrospective . It builds the sepul- chres of the fathers . It writes biographies , histories , and criticism . The ...
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... things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can satisfy . Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put . He acts it as life , before he apprehends it as truth . In like manner , Nature ...
... things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can satisfy . Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put . He acts it as life , before he apprehends it as truth . In like manner , Nature ...
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... things , as in a house , a canal , a statue , a picture . But his operations taken together are so insignificant , a little chipping , baking , patching , and washing , that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human ...
... things , as in a house , a canal , a statue , a picture . But his operations taken together are so insignificant , a little chipping , baking , patching , and washing , that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human ...
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... things . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to 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 ...
... things . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to 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 ...
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... things , or such the plastic power of the human eye , that the primary forms , as the sky , the mountain , the tree , the animal , give us a delight in and for themselves ; a pleasure arising from outline , colour , motion , and ...
... things , or such the plastic power of the human eye , that the primary forms , as the sky , the mountain , the tree , the animal , give us a delight in and for themselves ; a pleasure arising from outline , colour , motion , and ...
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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