Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 109
... born in , is it not the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be ...
... born in , is it not the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be ...
Page 120
... is without bound ; that to the good , to the perfect , he is born , low as he now lies in evil and weakness . That which he venerates is still his own , though he has not realized it yet . He ought . He 120 ADDRESS .
... is without bound ; that to the good , to the perfect , he is born , low as he now lies in evil and weakness . That which he venerates is still his own , though he has not realized it yet . He ought . He 120 ADDRESS .
Page 155
... born out of the eternal silence ; and now will we live , live for ourselves , - and not as the pall - bearers of a funeral , but as the upholders and creators of our age ; and neither Greece nor Rome , nor the three Unities of Aristotle ...
... born out of the eternal silence ; and now will we live , live for ourselves , - and not as the pall - bearers of a funeral , but as the upholders and creators of our age ; and neither Greece nor Rome , nor the three Unities of Aristotle ...
Page 158
... born of women . The difference of cir- cumstance is merely costume . I am tasting the self - same life , its sweetness , its greatness , its pain , which I so admire in other men . Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable , obliterated ...
... born of women . The difference of cir- cumstance is merely costume . I am tasting the self - same life , its sweetness , its greatness , its pain , which I so admire in other men . Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable , obliterated ...
Page 162
... born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature , birds , mountains , sun , and moon ; -yet the natur- alist of this hour find that he knows nothing , by all their poems , of any of these fine things ; that he has conversed with the ...
... born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature , birds , mountains , sun , and moon ; -yet the natur- alist of this hour find that he knows nothing , by all their poems , of any of these fine things ; that he has conversed with the ...
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