Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 16
... whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed altogether . Nothing is so fleeting as form . Yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the ...
... whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed altogether . Nothing is so fleeting as form . Yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the rudiments or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the ...
Page 29
... whilst subject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very sel- dom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a prop- erty he hath in all literature , -in all fable as well ...
... whilst subject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very sel- dom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a prop- erty he hath in all literature , -in all fable as well ...
Page 59
... whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is ...
... whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is ...
Page 86
... whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compen- sation is to be made to these last hereafter , by giving them the like gratifications another day , - bank - stock and doubloons , venison and cham- pagne ? This must be the ...
... whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compen- sation is to be made to these last hereafter , by giving them the like gratifications another day , - bank - stock and doubloons , venison and cham- pagne ? This must be the ...
Page 88
... Whilst the world is thus dual , so is every one of its parts . The entire system of things gets rep- resented in every particle . There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a single ...
... Whilst the world is thus dual , so is every one of its parts . The entire system of things gets rep- resented in every particle . There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a single ...
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