Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... present one , the inaccuracy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to essences unchanged by man ; space , the air , the river , the leaf . Art is applied to the mixture of his will ...
... present one , the inaccuracy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to essences unchanged by man ; space , the air , the river , the leaf . Art is applied to the mixture of his will ...
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... present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Na- ture never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the wisest man extort her secret , and lose his ...
... present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Na- ture never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the wisest man extort her secret , and lose his ...
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... present action of the mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made . - These facts may suggest the advantage which the country - life possesses for a powerful mind ...
... present action of the mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made . - These facts may suggest the advantage which the country - life possesses for a powerful mind ...
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... present to the imagination not only motions , as , of the snake , the stag , and the elephant , but colors also ; as the green grass . The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors . The granite is differenced in its laws ...
... present to the imagination not only motions , as , of the snake , the stag , and the elephant , but colors also ; as the green grass . The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors . The granite is differenced in its laws ...
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... present design . They both put na- ture under foot . The first and last lesson of religion is , " The things that are seen , are tem- poral ; the things that are unseen , are eternal . " It puts an affront upon nature . It does that for ...
... present design . They both put na- ture under foot . The first and last lesson of religion is , " The things that are seen , are tem- poral ; the things that are unseen , are eternal . " It puts an affront upon nature . It does that for ...
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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.