Essays, Volume 1James R. Osgood and Company, 1873 |
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... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and ...
... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and ...
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... nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs ...
... nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs ...
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... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
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... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . laws . I Nature is full of a sublime family likeness through- out her works ; and delights in startling us ...
... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . laws . I Nature is full of a sublime family likeness through- out her works ; and delights in startling us ...
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... nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey , who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geologi- cal ...
... nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey , who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geologi- cal ...
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