Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 4
... relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise ...
... relation between the hours of our life and the cen- turies of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise ...
Page 11
... relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface dif- ferences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are ' friendly and sacred , all events ...
... relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface dif- ferences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are ' friendly and sacred , all events ...
Page 32
... relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to na- tures out of him , and predict the world he is to in- habit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the wings of an ...
... relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to na- tures out of him , and predict the world he is to in- habit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the wings of an ...
Page 57
... relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure , that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh he should commu- nicate , not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ...
... relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure , that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh he should commu- nicate , not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ...
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... 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 , a man claims to know and speak of God ...
... 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 , a man claims to know and speak of God ...
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