Nature; Addresses, and LecturesJ. Munroe, 1849 - 383 páginas |
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... hands for the profit of man . The wind sows the seed ; the sun evaporates the sea ; the wind blows the vapor to the field ; the ice , on the other side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; ' the rain feeds the plant ; the plant ...
... hands for the profit of man . The wind sows the seed ; the sun evaporates the sea ; the wind blows the vapor to the field ; the ice , on the other side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; ' the rain feeds the plant ; the plant ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. persuasion , the keys of power are put into his hands . 3. We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. persuasion , the keys of power are put into his hands . 3. We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did ...
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... hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way , will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun shines ; " Tis hard to carry a full cup even ; Vinegar is the son of wine ; The last ounce broke the camel's back ...
... hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way , will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun shines ; " Tis hard to carry a full cup even ; Vinegar is the son of wine ; The last ounce broke the camel's back ...
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... Hand of the mind ; to instruct us that " good thoughts are no better than good dreams , unless they be executed ! " - - The same good office is performed by Pro- perty and its filial systems of debt and credit . Debt , grinding debt ...
... Hand of the mind ; to instruct us that " good thoughts are no better than good dreams , unless they be executed ! " - - The same good office is performed by Pro- perty and its filial systems of debt and credit . Debt , grinding debt ...
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... hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness . Thus architecture is called " frozen music , " by De Stael and Goethe . Vitru- vius thought an architect should be a musician ...
... hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness . Thus architecture is called " frozen music , " by De Stael and Goethe . Vitru- vius thought an architect should be a musician ...
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Página 6 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.
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 1 - 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 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provenqal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 8 - In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I 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 egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Página 19 - Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture. A virtuous man is in unison with her works, and makes the central figure of the visible sphere.
Página 40 - The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him. Who can estimate this? Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman? how much tranquility has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds, and leave no wrinkle or stain?
Página 2 - Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
Página 51 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, , bring again, ' . -' Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Página 70 - ... gleams of a better light — occasional examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force — with reason as well as understanding. Such examples are, the traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations; the history of Jesus Christ...