Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 86
... mankind and forfeits his privi- lege . Let us see him in his school , and consider him in reference to the main influences he re- ceives . I. The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of ...
... mankind and forfeits his privi- lege . Let us see him in his school , and consider him in reference to the main influences he re- ceives . I. The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of ...
Page 102
... some ephemeral trade , or war , or man , is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half , as if all depended on this particular up or down . The odds are that the whole question is not worth 102 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... some ephemeral trade , or war , or man , is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half , as if all depended on this particular up or down . The odds are that the whole question is not worth 102 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
Page 126
... mankind , whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world , is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion . Meantime , whilst the doors of the temple stand open , night and day , before every man , and the ...
... mankind , whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world , is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion . Meantime , whilst the doors of the temple stand open , night and day , before every man , and the ...
Page 147
... faith , new sight shall restore to more than its first splen- dor to mankind . And secondly , the institution of preaching , the speech of man to men , -essen- - tially the most flexible of all organs , of all ADDRESS . 147.
... faith , new sight shall restore to more than its first splen- dor to mankind . And secondly , the institution of preaching , the speech of man to men , -essen- - tially the most flexible of all organs , of all ADDRESS . 147.
Page 152
... mankind . Men looked , when all feudal straps and bandages were snapped asun- der , that nature , too long the mother of dwarfs , should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans , who should laugh and leap in the continent , and run up the ...
... mankind . Men looked , when all feudal straps and bandages were snapped asun- der , that nature , too long the mother of dwarfs , should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans , who should laugh and leap in the continent , and run up the ...
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