Nature, Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1883 - 372 páginas |
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... respect to the culture of the intel- lect . Hence the historical failure , on which Europe and America have so freely commented . This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reason- able expectation of mankind . Men looked , when all ...
... respect to the culture of the intel- lect . Hence the historical failure , on which Europe and America have so freely commented . This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reason- able expectation of mankind . Men looked , when all ...
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... respect for justice ; because an able man is noth- ing else than a good , free , vascular organization , whereinto the universal spirit freely flows ; so that his fund of justice is not only vast , but infinite . All men , in the ...
... respect for justice ; because an able man is noth- ing else than a good , free , vascular organization , whereinto the universal spirit freely flows ; so that his fund of justice is not only vast , but infinite . All men , in the ...
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... respecting the compensations of the Universe , ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits . For privileges so rare and grand , let him not stint to pay a great tax . Let him be a ...
... respecting the compensations of the Universe , ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits . For privileges so rare and grand , let him not stint to pay a great tax . Let him be a ...
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... respect for the old names of places , of mountains and streams , is universal . The Indian and barbarous name can never be sup- planted without loss . The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs ...
... respect for the old names of places , of mountains and streams , is universal . The Indian and barbarous name can never be sup- planted without loss . The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs ...
Página 293
... respect to you , personally , O brave young man they cannot be justified . They have , it is most true , left you no acre for your own , and no law but our law , to the ordaining of which you were no party . But they do answer the end ...
... respect to you , personally , O brave young man they cannot be justified . They have , it is most true , left you no acre for your own , and no law but our law , to the ordaining of which you were no party . But they do answer the end ...
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Página 21 - 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 7 - Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of...
Página 108 - 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 29 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
Página 128 - That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself. That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.
Página 28 - The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. Extend this element to the uttermost, and I call it 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 66 - Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth, and we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator, is himself the creator in the finite. This view, which admonishes me where the sources of wisdom and power lie, and points to virtue as to " The golden key Which opes the palace of eternity...
Página 34 - A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, cotemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.
Página 66 - As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God, he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?
Página 26 - The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection...