Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... virtue . Crossing a bare common , in snow pud- dles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilara- tion . I am glad to the brink of fear ...
... virtue . Crossing a bare common , in snow pud- dles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilara- tion . I am glad to the brink of fear ...
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... virtue . Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is also decent , and causes the place and the bystanders to shine . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual - He in it . Every ...
... virtue . Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is also decent , and causes the place and the bystanders to shine . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual - He in it . Every ...
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... virtue ; " said Sallust . " The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the 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 ...
... virtue ; " said Sallust . " The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the 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 ...
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... virtue sitting by his 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 cradle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let ...
... virtue sitting by his 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 cradle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let ...
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... virtue , they have a re- lation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affec- tion . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each ...
... virtue , they have a re- lation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affec- tion . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each ...
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Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Provencjal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 15 - I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will...
Página 5 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
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 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 125 - Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World. He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, 'I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, speaks. Would you see God, see me; or see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.
Página 47 - When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added, grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen; causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of life, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before...
Página 110 - ... if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Página 94 - Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs. Let the beauty of affection cheer his lowly roof. Those "far from fame...
Página 38 - Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.