Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest , and king , mar- tyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia ...
... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest , and king , mar- tyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia ...
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... Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thu- cydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have given it — a very sufficient account of what manner of per- sons they were , and what they did . Then we have ...
... Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thu- cydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have given it — a very sufficient account of what manner of per- sons they were , and what they did . Then we have ...
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... Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages . What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to ...
... Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages . What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought , as the horses in it are only a morning cloud . If any one will but take pains to ...
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... Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By simply ...
... Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By simply ...
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... Greek history , letters , art and poetry , in all its periods , from the heroic or Homeric age , down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? This period draws us because we are Greeks . It is ...
... Greek history , letters , art and poetry , in all its periods , from the heroic or Homeric age , down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? This period draws us because we are Greeks . It is ...
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Page 72 - We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Page 293 - From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
Page 294 - God comes to see us without bell;" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God.
Page 18 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Page 305 - A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light.
Page 51 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 160 - God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
Page 120 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat ; an eye for an eye ; a tooth for a tooth ; blood for blood ; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
Page 107 - Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart...
Page 64 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.