Nature; Addresses, and LecturesJ. Munroe, 1849 - 383 páginas |
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... honor minuteness in details , so long as there is no hint to explain the relation between things and thoughts ; no ray upon the metaphysics of conchology , of botany , of the arts , to show the relation of the forms of flowers , shells ...
... honor minuteness in details , so long as there is no hint to explain the relation between things and thoughts ; no ray upon the metaphysics of conchology , of botany , of the arts , to show the relation of the forms of flowers , shells ...
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... honor is sure . But he , in his private observatory , cata- loguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind , which as yet no man has thought of as such , watching days and months , sometimes , for a few facts ; correcting still ...
... honor is sure . But he , in his private observatory , cata- loguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind , which as yet no man has thought of as such , watching days and months , sometimes , for a few facts ; correcting still ...
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... honor . But when the mind opens , and reveals the laws which traverse the universe , and make things what they are , then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration and fable of this mind . What am I ? and What is ? asks ...
... honor . But when the mind opens , and reveals the laws which traverse the universe , and make things what they are , then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration and fable of this mind . What am I ? and What is ? asks ...
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... honor in obeying . The faith should blend with the light of rising and of setting suns , with the fly- ing cloud , the singing bird , and the breath of flowers . But now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature ; it is ...
... honor in obeying . The faith should blend with the light of rising and of setting suns , with the fly- ing cloud , the singing bird , and the breath of flowers . But now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature ; it is ...
Página 136
... honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy . What life the public worship retains , it owes to the scattered com- pany of pious men , who minister here and there in the churches , and who , sometimes accepting with ...
... honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy . What life the public worship retains , it owes to the scattered com- pany of pious men , who minister here and there in the churches , and who , sometimes accepting with ...
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Página 72 - The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
Página 79 - The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime ; that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man.
Página 85 - 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. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is instantly transferred to the record.
Página 28 - A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
Página 8 - Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight ; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight.
Página 9 - 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 52 - 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 30 - Hence, good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the 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, over the artificial and curtailed life of cities.
Página 71 - ... 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...
Página 96 - ... in seemliness is gained in strength. Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Skakspeare.