Nature, Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1883 - 372 páginas |
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Página 139
... can make thought dear and rich ; that Law whose fatal sure- ness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate ; -that it is travestied and depreciated , that it is behooted and behowled , and not a trait , not a ADDRESS . 139.
... can make thought dear and rich ; that Law whose fatal sure- ness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate ; -that it is travestied and depreciated , that it is behooted and behowled , and not a trait , not a ADDRESS . 139.
Página 141
... rich , the learned and the ignorant , young and old , should meet one day as fellows in one house , in sign of an equal right in the soul , has come to be a paramount motive for going thither . My friends , in these two errors , I think ...
... rich , the learned and the ignorant , young and old , should meet one day as fellows in one house , in sign of an equal right in the soul , has come to be a paramount motive for going thither . My friends , in these two errors , I think ...
Página 198
... of which as a man he arose . God is rich , and many more men than one he harbors in his bosom , biding their time and the needs and the beauty of all . Is not this the theory of every man's 198 THE METHOD OF NATURE .
... of which as a man he arose . God is rich , and many more men than one he harbors in his bosom , biding their time and the needs and the beauty of all . Is not this the theory of every man's 198 THE METHOD OF NATURE .
Página 213
... rich as love . Pusillanim- ity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn ; they are not for her who puts on her coronation robes , and goes out through universal love to uni- versal power . MAN THE REFORMER . A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE ...
... rich as love . Pusillanim- ity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn ; they are not for her who puts on her coronation robes , and goes out through universal love to uni- versal power . MAN THE REFORMER . A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE ...
Página 229
... rich man , runner of his riches . the menial and Hence it happens that the whole interest of his- tory lies in the fortunes of the poor . Knowledge , Virtue , Power are the victories of man over his ne- cessities , his march to the ...
... rich man , runner of his riches . the menial and Hence it happens that the whole interest of his- tory lies in the fortunes of the poor . Knowledge , Virtue , Power are the victories of man over his ne- cessities , his march to the ...
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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...