Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 7
... flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . - These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his ...
... flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . - These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his ...
Page 19
... 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 . Then ...
... 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 . Then ...
Page 59
... flow- er there is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . But man postpones or re- members ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye ...
... flow- er there is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . But man postpones or re- members ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye ...
Page 86
... flow of waters ; in male and female ; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals ; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body ; in the systole and diastole of the heart ; in the undulations of ...
... flow of waters ; in male and female ; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals ; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body ; in the systole and diastole of the heart ; in the undulations of ...
Page 87
... flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a single needle of the pine , in a kernel of corn , in each individual of every animal tribe . The reaction , so grand in the elements , is re- peated within these small boundaries ...
... flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a single needle of the pine , in a kernel of corn , in each individual of every animal tribe . The reaction , so grand in the elements , is re- peated within these small boundaries ...
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