Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence of the sublime . Seen ...
... come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence of the sublime . Seen ...
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... comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods , and is a man again . In their eter- nal calm , he finds himself . The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon . We are never tired , so long as we can see ...
... comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods , and is a man again . In their eter- nal calm , he finds himself . The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon . We are never tired , so long as we can see ...
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... come within doors . What was it that nature would say ? Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill , and which Homer or Shakspeare could not re - form for me in words ? The leafless trees become spires of ...
... come within doors . What was it that nature would say ? Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill , and which Homer or Shakspeare could not re - form for me in words ? The leafless trees become spires of ...
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... come shows merely , and mock us with their unreal- ity . Go out of the house to see the moon , and ' t is mere tinsel ; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey . The beauty that shimmers in the yellow ...
... come shows merely , and mock us with their unreal- ity . Go out of the house to see the moon , and ' t is mere tinsel ; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey . The beauty that shimmers in the yellow ...
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... come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopyla ; when Arnold Winkelried , in the high Alps , under the shadow of the avalanche , gathers in his side a sheaf of Aus- trian spears to break the line for his comrades ...
... come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopyla ; when Arnold Winkelried , in the high Alps , under the shadow of the avalanche , gathers in his side a sheaf of Aus- trian spears to break the line for his comrades ...
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