Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... common and in its philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccu- racy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to es- sences unchanged by man ; space ...
... common and in its philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccu- racy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to es- sences unchanged by man ; space ...
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... common , in snow puddles , at twi- light , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In the woods , too , a man ...
... common , in snow puddles , at twi- light , under a clouded sky , without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune , I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In the woods , too , a man ...
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... 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 , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3 ...
... 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 , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3 ...
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... common to them all , that perfectness and harmony , is beauty . The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of nat- ural forms , the totality of nature ; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty " il piu nell ' uno . " Nothing ...
... common to them all , that perfectness and harmony , is beauty . The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of nat- ural forms , the totality of nature ; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty " il piu nell ' uno . " Nothing ...
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... common sense ; what continual reproduction of annoyances , inconveniences , dilemmas ; what rejoic- ing over us of little men ; what disputing of prices , what reckonings of interest , and all to form the Hand of the mind ; to instruct ...
... common sense ; what continual reproduction of annoyances , inconveniences , dilemmas ; what rejoic- ing over us of little men ; what disputing of prices , what reckonings of interest , and all to form the Hand of the mind ; to instruct ...
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