Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 383 páginas |
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... action propor- tioned to nature , why should we grope among the dry bones of the past , or put the living gen- eration into masquerade out of its faded ward- robe ? The sun shines to - day also . more wool and flax in the fields . There ...
... action propor- tioned to nature , why should we grope among the dry bones of the past , or put the living gen- eration into masquerade out of its faded ward- robe ? The sun shines to - day also . more wool and flax in the fields . There ...
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... action of its structure and of the laws of light , perspective is produced , which integrates every mass of objects , of what character soever , into a well colored and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and ...
... action of its structure and of the laws of light , perspective is produced , which integrates every mass of objects , of what character soever , into a well colored and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and ...
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... actions in nature , is so needful to man , that , in its lowest functions , it seems to lie on the con- fines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and re ...
... actions in nature , is so needful to man , that , in its lowest functions , it seems to lie on the con- fines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and re ...
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... 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 in it . Every rational creature has all ...
... 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 in it . Every rational creature has all ...
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... actions . When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower - hill , sitting on a sled , to suffer death , as the champion of the English laws , one of the multitude cried out to him , " You never sate on so glorious a seat . ' Charles II ...
... actions . When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower - hill , sitting on a sled , to suffer death , as the champion of the English laws , one of the multitude cried out to him , " You never sate on so glorious a seat . ' Charles II ...
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action affections appears beauty become behold better body born cause character church cities comes common difference divine earth exist experience expression face fact faith fear feel force genius give hands heart heaven hold hope hour human idea individual intellect labor land language leaves less light live look manner matter means mind moral nature never objects once pass persons philosophy plant poet poor present reason reform relation religion respect rich scholar seems seen sense sentiment serve side society soul speak spirit stand stars things thought tion trade true truth turn universal virtue whilst whole wise wish young
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Página 54 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 106 - I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. 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 86 - The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead; man hopes; genius creates.
Página 111 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
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 96 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 7 - In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of
Página 86 - What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, \< although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn.
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 30 - The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.