Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... exist in things whose analogy is obvious , as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness . Thus architecture is called " frozen music ...
... exist in things whose analogy is obvious , as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness . Thus architecture is called " frozen music ...
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... exist . We become immortal , for we learn that time and space are relations of matter ; that , with a perception of truth , or a virtuous will , they have no affinity . - ― 5. Finally , religion and ethics , which may be fitly called ...
... exist . We become immortal , for we learn that time and space are relations of matter ; that , with a perception of truth , or a virtuous will , they have no affinity . - ― 5. Finally , religion and ethics , which may be fitly called ...
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... and each entirely , is that for which all things exist , and that by which they are ; that spirit creates ; that behind nature , throughout nature , spirit is present ; one and not compound , it does not 6 SPIRIT . 61.
... and each entirely , is that for which all things exist , and that by which they are ; that spirit creates ; that behind nature , throughout nature , spirit is present ; one and not compound , it does not 6 SPIRIT . 61.
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... exist for the student's behoof ? And , finally , is not the true scholar the only true master ? But the old oracle said , All things have two handles : beware of the wrong one . ' In life , too often , the scholar errs with mankind and ...
... exist for the student's behoof ? And , finally , is not the true scholar the only true master ? But the old oracle said , All things have two handles : beware of the wrong one . ' In life , too often , the scholar errs with mankind and ...
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... . A nation of men will for the first time exist , because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men . AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVINITY COLLEGE THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 111.
... . A nation of men will for the first time exist , because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men . AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVINITY COLLEGE THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 111.
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Página 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Página 110 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 7 - 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 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Página 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.