Essays and English TraitsP.F. Collier & son, 1909 - 493 páginas |
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... persons he addresses , —until he finds that he is the com- plement 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 ...
... persons he addresses , —until he finds that he is the com- plement 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 ...
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... attributed to one or two persons , and denied to all the rest , and denied with fury . The doctrine of inspiration is lost ; the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the ADDRESS TO DIVINITY STUDENTS 29.
... attributed to one or two persons , and denied to all the rest , and denied with fury . The doctrine of inspiration is lost ; the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the ADDRESS TO DIVINITY STUDENTS 29.
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... person of Jesus . The soul knows no persons . It invites every man to expand to the full circle of the universe , and will have no preferences but those of spontaneous love . But by this Eastern monarchy of a Christianity , which ...
... person of Jesus . The soul knows no persons . It invites every man to expand to the full circle of the universe , and will have no preferences but those of spontaneous love . But by this Eastern monarchy of a Christianity , which ...
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... persons . The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church , and in the dogmas ... person who prized the Sab- bath say in bitterness of heart : - " On Sundays it seems wicked to go to church . " And the ...
... persons . The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church , and in the dogmas ... person who prized the Sab- bath say in bitterness of heart : - " On Sundays it seems wicked to go to church . " And the ...
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... persons who are not actors , not speakers , but in- fluences ; persons too great for fame , for display ; who dis- dain eloquence ; to whom all we call art and artist seems too nearly allied to show and by - ends , to the exaggeration ...
... persons who are not actors , not speakers , but in- fluences ; persons too great for fame , for display ; who dis- dain eloquence ; to whom all we call art and artist seems too nearly allied to show and by - ends , to the exaggeration ...
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Página 5 - 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 21 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street, the news of the boat, the glance of the eye, the form and the gait of the body...
Página 138 - When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up, and put myself in the attitude of reception, but from some alien energy the visions come.
Página 6 - In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Página 18 - ... like an ostrich in the flowering bushes, peeping into microscopes, and turning rhymes, as a boy whistles to keep his courage up. So is the danger a danger still ; so is the fear worse. Manlike let him turn and face it. Let him look into its eye and search its nature, inspect its origin, — see the whelping of this lion, — which lies no great way back; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent ; he will have made his hands meet on the other side, and can...
Página 15 - ... inspiring and expiring of the breath; in desire and satiety; in the ebb and flow of the sea; in day and night; in heat and cold; and as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of polarity — these " fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit.
Página 9 - 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 transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also.
Página 63 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Página 181 - These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space, and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up, and of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.
Página 84 - We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean, and follow the Past and the Distant.