Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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Página 92
... feel or know it , than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life , — remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life . In some contemplative hour , it detaches itself from the ...
... feel or know it , than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life , — remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life . In some contemplative hour , it detaches itself from the ...
Página 95
... feel the force of his constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it can be measured by any public and designed display . Time shall teach him , that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives . Herein he unfolds ...
... feel the force of his constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it can be measured by any public and designed display . Time shall teach him , that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives . Herein he unfolds ...
Página 97
... day , — this he shall hear and promulgate . these These being his functions , it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself , and to defer never the popular cry . He and he only knows the 9 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 97.
... day , — this he shall hear and promulgate . these These being his functions , it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself , and to defer never the popular cry . He and he only knows the 9 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 97.
Página 102
... feel it to be their own element . They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero , and will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat , those giant sinews combat and conquer . He ...
... feel it to be their own element . They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero , and will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat , those giant sinews combat and conquer . He ...
Página 108
... feel the world is his , and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state ; - tends to true union as well as greatness . " I learned , " said the melancholy Pestalozzi , " that no man in God's wide earth is either ...
... feel the world is his , and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state ; - tends to true union as well as greatness . " I learned , " said the melancholy Pestalozzi , " that no man in God's wide earth is either ...
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Página 77 - 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 110 - 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...
Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 7 - 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 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 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
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 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.