Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... rich conveniences , this ocean of air above , this ocean of water beneath , this firma- ment of earth between ? this zodiac of lights , this tent of dropping clouds , this striped coat of cli- mates , this fourfold year ? Beasts , fire ...
... rich conveniences , this ocean of air above , this ocean of water beneath , this firma- ment of earth between ? this zodiac of lights , this tent of dropping clouds , this striped coat of cli- mates , this fourfold year ? Beasts , fire ...
Page 71
... rich land- scape , it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata , than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity . I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details ...
... rich land- scape , it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata , than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity . I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details ...
Page 109
... the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time , like all times , is a very good one , THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 109.
... the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time , like all times , is a very good one , THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 109.
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... in which our senses converse . How wide ; how rich ; what invi- tation from every property it gives to every faculty of man ! In its fruitful soils ; in its navigable sea ; in its mountains of metal and stone ; in its.
... in which our senses converse . How wide ; how rich ; what invi- tation from every property it gives to every faculty of man ! In its fruitful soils ; in its navigable sea ; in its mountains of metal and stone ; in its.
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... rich soul , like his , falling among the simple , does so preponderate , that , as his did , it names the world . The world seems to them to exist for him , and they have not yet drunk so deeply of his sense as to see that only by ...
... rich soul , like his , falling among the simple , does so preponderate , that , as his did , it names the world . The world seems to them to exist for him , and they have not yet drunk so deeply of his sense as to see that only by ...
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