Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 13
... because though always present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Nature never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the wis- est NATURE.
... because though always present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Nature never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the wis- est NATURE.
Page 14
... objects . It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter , from the tree of the poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this ...
... objects . It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter , from the tree of the poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this ...
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... objects , of what character soever , into a well colored and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and sym- metrical . And as the eye is the best ...
... objects , of what character soever , into a well colored and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and sym- metrical . And as the eye is the best ...
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... objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its tem- ple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she ...
... objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its tem- ple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she ...
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... object of the intellect . Beside the re- lation of things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The ...
... object of the intellect . Beside the re- lation of things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The ...
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