Nature; Addresses, and LecturesJ. Munroe, 1849 - 383 páginas |
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... side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; ' the rain feeds the plant ; the plant feeds the ani- mal ; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish , man . The useful arts are reproductions or new com- binations by ...
... side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; ' the rain feeds the plant ; the plant feeds the ani- mal ; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish , man . The useful arts are reproductions or new com- binations by ...
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... side of the ablest navigators . ” So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leon- idas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying ...
... side of the ablest navigators . ” So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leon- idas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying ...
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... side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of ...
... side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of ...
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... side , and from age to age , as each prophet comes by , he tries his fortune at reading her rid- dle . There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird ...
... side , and from age to age , as each prophet comes by , he tries his fortune at reading her rid- dle . There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird ...
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... side . " - This doctrine is abstruse , and though the im- ages of " garment , " " scoriæ , " " mirror , " & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . " Every scripture ...
... side . " - This doctrine is abstruse , and though the im- ages of " garment , " " scoriæ , " " mirror , " & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . " Every scripture ...
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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...