Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us by the pow ...
... poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us by the pow ...
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... poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field , Locke that , and Manning the woodland beyond . But none of them owns the landscape . There is a ...
... poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field , Locke that , and Manning the woodland beyond . But none of them owns the landscape . There is a ...
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... poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce . Thus is ...
... poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce . Thus is ...
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... poets , here and there , but man is an analogist , and studies relations in all objects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without ...
... poets , here and there , but man is an analogist , and studies relations in all objects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without ...
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... As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until its infancy , when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural And as this is the symbols . The same symbols 34 LANGUAGE .
... As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until its infancy , when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural And as this is the symbols . The same symbols 34 LANGUAGE .
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