Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 11
... insignificant , a little chipping , baking , patching , and washing , that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind , they do not vary the result . NATURE . CHAPTER I. To go into solitude , a INTRODUCTION . 11.
... insignificant , a little chipping , baking , patching , and washing , that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind , they do not vary the result . NATURE . CHAPTER I. To go into solitude , a INTRODUCTION . 11.
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... solitude , a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society . I am not solitary whilst I read and write , though nobody is with me . But if a man would be alone , let him look at the stars . The rays that come from those ...
... solitude , a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society . I am not solitary whilst I read and write , though nobody is with me . But if a man would be alone , let him look at the stars . The rays that come from those ...
Page 101
... solitude . For the ease and pleasure of tread- ing the old road , accepting the fashions , the educa- tion , the religion of society , he takes the cross of making his own , and , of course , the self - accusation , the faint heart ...
... solitude . For the ease and pleasure of tread- ing the old road , accepting the fashions , the educa- tion , the religion of society , he takes the cross of making his own , and , of course , the self - accusation , the faint heart ...
Page 103
... solitude remembering his spontaneous thoughts and recording them , is found to have recorded that which men in crowded cities find true for them also . The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions , his want of ...
... solitude remembering his spontaneous thoughts and recording them , is found to have recorded that which men in crowded cities find true for them also . The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions , his want of ...
Page 135
... . We are fain to wrap our cloaks about us , and secure , as best we can , a solitude that hears not . I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more . Men go , thought I ADDRESS . 135.
... . We are fain to wrap our cloaks about us , and secure , as best we can , a solitude that hears not . I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more . Men go , thought I ADDRESS . 135.
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