Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... becomes part of his daily food . In the presence of nature a wild de- light runs through the man , in spite of real sorrows . Nature says , he is my creature , and maugre all his impertinent griefs , he shall be glad with me . Not the ...
... becomes part of his daily food . In the presence of nature a wild de- light runs through the man , in spite of real sorrows . Nature says , he is my creature , and maugre all his impertinent griefs , he shall be glad with me . Not the ...
Page 16
... become a transparent eye - ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God . The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers , to ...
... become a transparent eye - ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God . The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers , to ...
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... mill , and which Homer or Shakspeare could not re - form for me in words ? The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset , with the blue east for their back- ground , and the stars of the dead calices of BEAUTY . 23.
... mill , and which Homer or Shakspeare could not re - form for me in words ? The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset , with the blue east for their back- ground , and the stars of the dead calices of BEAUTY . 23.
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... becomes an object of the intellect . Beside the re- lation of things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of ...
... becomes an object of the intellect . Beside the re- lation of things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of ...
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... become sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until ...
... become sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until ...
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