Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 65
... faculties find appropriate and end- less exercise . And all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one , which yields the activity of man an infinite scope . Through all its kingdoms , to the suburbs and outskirts of things , it is ...
... faculties find appropriate and end- less exercise . And all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one , which yields the activity of man an infinite scope . Through all its kingdoms , to the suburbs and outskirts of things , it is ...
Page 77
... faculties . And there are patient naturalists , but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understand- ing . Is not prayer also a study of truth , — a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite ? No man ever prayed ...
... faculties . And there are patient naturalists , but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understand- ing . Is not prayer also a study of truth , — a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite ? No man ever prayed ...
Page 78
... faculties and affections of the mind . Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect , nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands . It were a wise inquiry for the closet , to compare , point by point , espe ...
... faculties and affections of the mind . Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect , nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands . It were a wise inquiry for the closet , to compare , point by point , espe ...
Page 146
... faculties of pru- dence and thrift , but comprehension , immovable- ness , the readiness of sacrifice , comes graceful and beloved as a bride . Napoleon said of Mas- sena , that he was not himself until the battle began to go against ...
... faculties of pru- dence and thrift , but comprehension , immovable- ness , the readiness of sacrifice , comes graceful and beloved as a bride . Napoleon said of Mas- sena , that he was not himself until the battle began to go against ...
Page 159
... the resources of the scholar , we must not rest in the use of slender ac- complishments , of faculties to do this and that other feat with words ; but we must pay our vows - to the highest power , and pass , if it LITERARY ETHICS . 159.
... the resources of the scholar , we must not rest in the use of slender ac- complishments , of faculties to do this and that other feat with words ; but we must pay our vows - to the highest power , and pass , if it LITERARY ETHICS . 159.
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