Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... feel that nothing can befall me in life , no disgrace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which Nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , my head bathed by the blithe air , and uplifted into infinite space , all mean ...
... feel that nothing can befall me in life , no disgrace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which Nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , my head bathed by the blithe air , and uplifted into infinite space , all mean ...
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... feel that we have not yet put it to its use , neither are able . We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs . Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the ...
... feel that we have not yet put it to its use , neither are able . We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs . Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the ...
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... feel that our out- ward being is a dream and a shade . Whilst we wait in this Olympus of gods , we think of Nature as an appendix to the soul . We ascend into their region , and know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being ...
... feel that our out- ward being is a dream and a shade . Whilst we wait in this Olympus of gods , we think of Nature as an appendix to the soul . We ascend into their region , and know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being ...
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... prefer imperfect theories and sentences which contain glimpses of truth , to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion . A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by 70 Nature .
... prefer imperfect theories and sentences which contain glimpses of truth , to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion . A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by 70 Nature .
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... feel or know it , than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life - remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life . In some contemplative hour , it detaches itself from the life ...
... feel or know it , than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life - remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life . In some contemplative hour , it detaches itself from the life ...
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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
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Página 79 - Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be 78 and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Página 8 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Página 85 - Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — Is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
Página 253 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 27 - It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
Página 10 - Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 5 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 88 - Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Página 81 - In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained.
Página 6 - There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.