Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 14
... 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 the child . The lover of nature is he whose ...
... 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 the child . The lover of nature is he whose ...
Page 27
... person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , — the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under ...
... person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , — the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under ...
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... person to outgo our ideal ; when he has , moreover , become an object of thought , and , whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect , is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom , it is a sign to us that his office ...
... person to outgo our ideal ; when he has , moreover , become an object of thought , and , whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect , is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom , it is a sign to us that his office ...
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... persons and things , of actions and events , of country and re- ligion , not as painfully accumulated , atom after atom , act after act , in an aged creeping Past , but as one vast picture which God paints on the in- stant eternity for ...
... persons and things , of actions and events , of country and re- ligion , not as painfully accumulated , atom after atom , act after act , in an aged creeping Past , but as one vast picture which God paints on the in- stant eternity for ...
Page 103
... persons he addresses , until he finds that he is the comple- ment of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest , secretest pre- sentiment , to his ...
... persons he addresses , until he finds that he is the comple- ment of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest , secretest pre- sentiment , to his ...
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