Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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... become 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 ...
... become 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 ...
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... becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History ; only Biography . Every soul must know the whole lesson for itself— must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
... becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History ; only Biography . Every soul must know the whole lesson for itself— must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
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... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capi- tals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capi- tals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never ...
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... become the pre- dominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective but perfect in their senses , perfect in their health , with the finest ...
... become the pre- dominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective but perfect in their senses , perfect in their health , with the finest ...
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... as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , -when a 32 ESSAY I.
... as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , -when a 32 ESSAY I.
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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.