Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 23
... present like an arch- angel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my com- panion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite ...
... present like an arch- angel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my com- panion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite ...
Page 26
... present day . The antagonism of the two tenden- cies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predom- inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits 26 HISTORY .
... present day . The antagonism of the two tenden- cies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predom- inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits 26 HISTORY .
Page 58
... present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics 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 metaphysics 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 66
... 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 , and absorbs past and future into the present ...
... 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 , and absorbs past and future into the present ...
Page 67
... present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to fore- see the future . He cannot be happy and strong un- til he too lives with nature in the present , above time ...
... present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to fore- see the future . He cannot be happy and strong un- til he too lives with nature in the present , above time ...
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