Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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Page 9
... of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the waterpot , lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiack , so I can see HISTORY . 9.
... of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance and the waterpot , lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiack , so I can see HISTORY . 9.
Page 10
... the triumphs of will , or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home 10 ESSAY I.
... the triumphs of will , or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home 10 ESSAY I.
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... lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in ...
... lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in ...
Page 56
... lose all pledge , and having observed , observe again from the same . un- affected , unbiased , unbribable , unaffrighted in- nocence , must always be formidable , must always engage the poet's and the man's regards . Of such an ...
... lose all pledge , and having observed , observe again from the same . un- affected , unbiased , unbribable , unaffrighted in- nocence , must always be formidable , must always engage the poet's and the man's regards . Of such an ...
Page 61
... loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible- Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base ...
... loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible- Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base ...
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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.