Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 19
... once his floor , his work - yard , his play - ground , his garden , and his bed . " More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of . " Nature , in its ministry to man , is not only the material , but is also the process and the ...
... once his floor , his work - yard , his play - ground , his garden , and his bed . " More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of . " Nature , in its ministry to man , is not only the material , but is also the process and the ...
Page 26
... once in the steep defile of Thermopyla ; when Arnold Winkelried , in the high Alps , under the shadow of the avalanche , gathers in his side a sheaf of Aus- trian spears to break the line for his comrades ; are not these heroes entitled ...
... once in the steep defile of Thermopyla ; when Arnold Winkelried , in the high Alps , under the shadow of the avalanche , gathers in his side a sheaf of Aus- trian spears to break the line for his comrades ; are not these heroes entitled ...
Page 27
... 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 follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and ...
... 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 follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and ...
Page 36
... once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God . The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts and is in- flamed with passion or exalted by thought , it clothes ...
... once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God . The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts and is in- flamed with passion or exalted by thought , it clothes ...
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... once at a new fact , that nature is a discipline . This use of the world includes the preceding uses , as parts of itself . - Space , time , society , labor , climate , food , locomo- tion , the animals , the mechanical forces , give us ...
... once at a new fact , that nature is a discipline . This use of the world includes the preceding uses , as parts of itself . - Space , time , society , labor , climate , food , locomo- tion , the animals , the mechanical forces , give us ...
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