Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 13
... give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence of the sublime . Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve ...
... give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence of the sublime . Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve ...
Page 14
... give no title . To speak truly , few adult persons can see nature . Most persons do not see the sun . At least they have a very superficial seeing . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man , but shines into the eye and the heart of ...
... give no title . To speak truly , few adult persons can see nature . Most persons do not see the sun . At least they have a very superficial seeing . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man , but shines into the eye and the heart of ...
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... give us a delight in and for them- selves ; a pleasure arising from outline , color , mo- tion , and grouping . This seems partly owing to the eye itself . The eye is the best of artists . By the mutual action of its structure and of ...
... give us a delight in and for them- selves ; a pleasure arising from outline , color , mo- tion , and grouping . This seems partly owing to the eye itself . The eye is the best of artists . By the mutual action of its structure and of ...
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... Give me health and a day , and I will make the pomp of empe- rors ridiculous . The dawn is my Assyria ; the sun- set and moon - rise my Paphos , and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the ...
... Give me health and a day , and I will make the pomp of empe- rors ridiculous . The dawn is my Assyria ; the sun- set and moon - rise my Paphos , and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the ...
Page 31
... give us aid in supernatural history ; the use of the outer creation , to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation . Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is ...
... give us aid in supernatural history ; the use of the outer creation , to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation . Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is ...
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