Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird , acid and alkali ... spirit . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of ...
... spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird , acid and alkali ... spirit . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of ...
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... spirit which gave it forth , " is the fundamental law of criticism . A life in harmony with nature , the love of truth and of virtue , will purge the eyes to understand her text . By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of ...
... spirit which gave it forth , " is the fundamental law of criticism . A life in harmony with nature , the love of truth and of virtue , will purge the eyes to understand her text . By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of ...
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... spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone , and is needed most by those who suffer from it most . More- over , property , which has been well compared to snow , " if it fall level to - day , it ...
... spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone , and is needed most by those who suffer from it most . More- over , property , which has been well compared to snow , " if it fall level to - day , it ...
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... spirit , experience in profounder laws . The whole character and fortune of the indi vidual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space ...
... spirit , experience in profounder laws . The whole character and fortune of the indi vidual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space ...
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... Spirit . For , it pervades Thought also . Every universal truth which we express in words , implies or supposes every other truth . Omne verum vero consonat . It is like a great circle on a sphere , comprising all possible circles ...
... Spirit . For , it pervades Thought also . Every universal truth which we express in words , implies or supposes every other truth . Omne verum vero consonat . It is like a great circle on a sphere , comprising all possible circles ...
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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.