Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 27
... Greece . The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus . And in common life whoso- ever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , — the persons ...
... Greece . The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus . And in common life whoso- ever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , — the persons ...
Page 98
... Greece or Palestine , follow the trap- per into the prairie , or ramble round Algiers , to replenish their merchantable stock . If it were only for a vocabulary , the scholar would be covetous of action . Life is our diction- ary ...
... Greece or Palestine , follow the trap- per into the prairie , or ramble round Algiers , to replenish their merchantable stock . If it were only for a vocabulary , the scholar would be covetous of action . Life is our diction- ary ...
Page 128
... Greece and of Egypt , before . He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life was a miracle , and all that man doth , and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends . But the word Miracle , as pronounced by ...
... Greece and of Egypt , before . He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life was a miracle , and all that man doth , and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends . But the word Miracle , as pronounced by ...
Page 154
... presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact . What else is Greece , Rome , England , France , St. Helena ? What else are churches , literatures , and empires ? The new man must feel that he is 154 LITERARY ETHICS .
... presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact . What else is Greece , Rome , England , France , St. Helena ? What else are churches , literatures , and empires ? The new man must feel that he is 154 LITERARY ETHICS .
Page 155
... Greece nor Rome , nor the three Unities of Aristotle , nor the three Kings of Cologne , nor the College of the Sorbonne , nor the Edinburgh Review is to com- mand any longer . Now that we are here we will put our own interpretation on ...
... Greece nor Rome , nor the three Unities of Aristotle , nor the three Kings of Cologne , nor the College of the Sorbonne , nor the Edinburgh Review is to com- mand any longer . Now that we are here we will put our own interpretation on ...
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