Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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... deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , but , by watching for a time his motions and plays ...
... deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , but , by watching for a time his motions and plays ...
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... 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 gave over the Nomadism of its barbarous ...
... 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 gave over the Nomadism of its barbarous ...
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... deep a property he hath in all literature , -in all fable as well as in all history . He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true ...
... deep a property he hath in all literature , -in all fable as well as in all history . He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true ...
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... deep presentiment of the powers of science . The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the ele- ments , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure ...
... deep presentiment of the powers of science . The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the ele- ments , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure ...
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... deep cause , -disguise no god , but are put on and off as the wind blows , and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formid- able than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough for a firm man who ...
... deep cause , -disguise no god , but are put on and off as the wind blows , and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formid- able than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough for a firm man who ...
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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.