Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 17
... present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite ...
... present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite ...
Page 20
... present day . The antagonism of the two tendencies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid ...
... present day . The antagonism of the two tendencies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid ...
Page 50
... present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color ...
... present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color ...
Page 57
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
Page 58
... present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and , in the universal miracle , petty and particular mir- acles disappear . If , therefore ...
... present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and , in the universal miracle , petty and particular mir- acles disappear . If , therefore ...
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