Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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... is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the com- mendation , not of himself , but more sweet , HISTORY . 11.
... is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions . A wise and good soul , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the com- mendation , not of himself , but more sweet , HISTORY . 11.
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... 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 lower ...
... 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 lower ...
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... looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , all must be explained from ...
... looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , all must be explained from ...
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... look down on the word or gesture of a child . It is as great as they . The attraction of these manners is , that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; beside that always there are ...
... look down on the word or gesture of a child . It is as great as they . The attraction of these manners is , that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; beside that always there are ...
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... look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no ...
... look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it . So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no ...
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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.