Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... already presented do not include the whole cir- cumference of man . We must add some related thoughts . Three problems are put by Nature to the mind : What is matter ? Whence is it , and whereto ? The first of these questions only the ...
... already presented do not include the whole cir- cumference of man . We must add some related thoughts . Three problems are put by Nature to the mind : What is matter ? Whence is it , and whereto ? The first of these questions only the ...
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... it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct . Perhaps the time is already come , when it ought to be and will be , something else ; when the sluggard 78 Man Thinking: an Oration delivered before Phi Beta Kappa Society.
... it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct . Perhaps the time is already come , when it ought to be and will be , something else ; when the sluggard 78 Man Thinking: an Oration delivered before Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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... already ; friend and relative , profession and party , town and country , nation and world , must also soar and sing . Of course , he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions , has the richest return of wisdom . I will not ...
... already ; friend and relative , profession and party , town and country , nation and world , must also soar and sing . Of course , he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions , has the richest return of wisdom . I will not ...
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... already lived , through the poverty or the splendour of his speech . Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to - day . This is the way to learn grammar . Colleges and books only copy ...
... already lived , through the poverty or the splendour of his speech . Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to - day . This is the way to learn grammar . Colleges and books only copy ...
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... can see through its preten- sion . What deafness , what stone - blind custom , what overgrown error you behold , is there only by sufferance , -by your sufferance . See it to be a lie , and you have already dealt it Man Thinking . ΙΟΙ.
... can see through its preten- sion . What deafness , what stone - blind custom , what overgrown error you behold , is there only by sufferance , -by your sufferance . See it to be a lie , and you have already dealt it Man Thinking . ΙΟΙ.
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Página 79 - Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be 78 and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Página 8 - 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 85 - Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — Is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
Página 253 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 27 - It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
Página 10 - 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 5 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 88 - Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Página 81 - In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained.
Página 6 - There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.