Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this uni- versal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concen- - trate this radiance of the world on one point ...
... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this uni- versal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concen- - trate this radiance of the world on one point ...
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... Whole Floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry cata- logues of facts ; but the most trival of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in ...
... Whole Floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry cata- logues of facts ; but the most trival of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in ...
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... whole of nature is a meta- phor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " The axioms of ...
... whole of nature is a meta- phor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " The axioms of ...
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... whole character and fortune of the indi vidual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
... whole character and fortune of the indi vidual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
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... great classes , nay the whole series of events , and so conform all facts to his character . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass 4 DISCIPLINE . 37.
... great classes , nay the whole series of events , and so conform all facts to his character . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass 4 DISCIPLINE . 37.
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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.