Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 62
... existence . Before a leaf - bud has burst , its whole life acts ; in the full - blown flower , there is no more ; in the leafless root , there is no less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . There ...
... existence . Before a leaf - bud has burst , its whole life acts ; in the full - blown flower , there is no more ; in the leafless root , there is no less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . There ...
Page 108
... Existence , or God , is not a relation , or a part , but the whole . Being is the vast affirmative , excluding negation , self - balanced , and swallowing up all relations , parts and times , within itself . Nature , truth , virtue are ...
... Existence , or God , is not a relation , or a part , but the whole . Being is the vast affirmative , excluding negation , self - balanced , and swallowing up all relations , parts and times , within itself . Nature , truth , virtue are ...
Page 110
... existence , without any comparative . All external good has its tax , and if it came without desert or sweat , has no root in me and the next wind will blow it away . But all the good of nature is the soul's , and may be had , if paid ...
... existence , without any comparative . All external good has its tax , and if it came without desert or sweat , has no root in me and the next wind will blow it away . But all the good of nature is the soul's , and may be had , if paid ...
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... existence makes the world rich . Though she extrudes all other persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy , yet she indemnifies him by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal , large , mundane , so that the maiden ...
... existence makes the world rich . Though she extrudes all other persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy , yet she indemnifies him by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal , large , mundane , so that the maiden ...
Page 161
... existence . " So must it be with personal beauty , which love worships . Then first is it charming and itself , when it dissatisfies us with any end ; when it be- comes a story without an end ; when it suggests gleams and visions , and ...
... existence . " So must it be with personal beauty , which love worships . Then first is it charming and itself , when it dissatisfies us with any end ; when it be- comes a story without an end ; when it suggests gleams and visions , and ...
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