Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 12
... eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle ...
... eternal unity . Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle ...
Page 19
... eternal flow- er , with the lightness and delicate finish , as well as the aerial proportions and perspective , of vegetable beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individ- ualized , all private facts are to be generalized ...
... eternal flow- er , with the lightness and delicate finish , as well as the aerial proportions and perspective , of vegetable beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individ- ualized , all private facts are to be generalized ...
Page 27
... Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily ...
... Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily ...
Page 30
... eternal entities , as real to - day as in the first Olym- piad . Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagi- nation . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is ...
... eternal entities , as real to - day as in the first Olym- piad . Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagi- nation . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is ...
Page 60
... eternal causation , per- ceives the self - existence of Truth and Right , and calms itself with knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature , the Atlantic Ocean , the South Sea , -long intervals of time , years , centuries ...
... eternal causation , per- ceives the self - existence of Truth and Right , and calms itself with knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature , the Atlantic Ocean , the South Sea , -long intervals of time , years , centuries ...
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