Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without these objects , nor these objects without man . All the facts in natural history taken by themselves , have no value , but are barren , like a single sex ...
... passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without these objects , nor these objects without man . All the facts in natural history taken by themselves , have no value , but are barren , like a single sex ...
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... passing events shall awaken . At the call of a noble sentiment , again the woods wave , the pines murmur , the river rolls and shines , and the cattle low upon the mountains , as he saw and heard them in his infancy . And with these ...
... passing events shall awaken . At the call of a noble sentiment , again the woods wave , the pines murmur , the river rolls and shines , and the cattle low upon the mountains , as he saw and heard them in his infancy . And with these ...
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... Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature , we must not omit to specify two . The exercise of the Will , or the lesson of power , is taught in every event . From the child's succes- sive possession of his several senses up ...
... Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature , we must not omit to specify two . The exercise of the Will , or the lesson of power , is taught in every event . From the child's succes- sive possession of his several senses up ...
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... passing , it would not be easy to match in literature . - This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet , this power which he exerts to dwarf the great , to mag- nify the small , — might be ...
... passing , it would not be easy to match in literature . - This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet , this power which he exerts to dwarf the great , to mag- nify the small , — might be ...
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... pass into the im- mortal as gently as we awake from dreams . Now , the world would be insane and rabid , if these dis- organizations should last for hundreds of years . It is kept in check by death and infancy . Infancy is the perpetual ...
... pass into the im- mortal as gently as we awake from dreams . Now , the world would be insane and rabid , if these dis- organizations should last for hundreds of years . It is kept in check by death and infancy . Infancy is the perpetual ...
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