Essays, Lectures and OrationsW. S. Orr & Company, 1848 - 364 páginas |
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... already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual ...
... already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual ...
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... system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy and Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring areas . always the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the 20 ESSAYS .
... system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy and Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring areas . always the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the 20 ESSAYS .
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... Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature , but from it , rather . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , come much ...
... Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature , but from it , rather . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , come much ...
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... already done singly , will justify you now . " Great- ness always appeals to the future . If I can be great enough now to do right and scorn eyes , I must have done so much right before , as to defend me now . Be it how it will , do ...
... already done singly , will justify you now . " Great- ness always appeals to the future . If I can be great enough now to do right and scorn eyes , I must have done so much right before , as to defend me now . Be it how it will , do ...
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... already . He has not one chance , but a hundred chances . Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self - trust ...
... already . He has not one chance , but a hundred chances . Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self - trust ...
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abstrac action affections appear astronomy beauty becomes behold better black event Bonduca character church Conservatism conversation divine doctrine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist fact faculties faith fear feel genius give hand heart heaven honour hope hour human idea inspiration intellect labour light live look man's manual labour means mind moral nature never noble object Parliament of Love perception perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence racter reason reform relation religion rich scholar seems seen sense sentiment shines society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent teach thee things thou thought tion tism to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal Uranus virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words worship Xenophon Zoroaster
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Página 186 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 30 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Página 194 - 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. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Página ix - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Página 344 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit, not to be reckoned one character — - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Página 344 - What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Página 230 - For us the winds do blow; The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws; Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause.
Página 196 - Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 344 - The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Página 342 - 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...