Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 47
... highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and tradi- tions , and spoke not what men , but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across ...
... highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and tradi- tions , and spoke not what men , but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across ...
Page 49
... highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but guides , redeemers and benefactors , obeying the Al- mighty effort and advancing on Chaos and ...
... highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but guides , redeemers and benefactors , obeying the Al- mighty effort and advancing on Chaos and ...
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... highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intui- tion . That thought by what I can now nearest ap- proach to say it , is this . When good is near you ...
... highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intui- tion . That thought by what I can now nearest ap- proach to say it , is this . When good is near you ...
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... highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a be- holding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good . But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft . It supposes dualism and not ...
... highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a be- holding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good . But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft . It supposes dualism and not ...
Page 78
... Highest . Such is Cal- vinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new sea- sons thereby . It ...
... Highest . Such is Cal- vinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new sea- sons thereby . It ...
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