Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... spirit . The flowers , the ani- mals , the mountains , reflected the wisdom of his best hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most poetical ...
... spirit . The flowers , the ani- mals , the mountains , reflected the wisdom of his best hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most poetical ...
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... spirit . To a man laboring under ca- lamity , the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it . Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend . The sky is less grand as it shuts down ...
... spirit . To a man laboring under ca- lamity , the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it . Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend . The sky is less grand as it shuts down ...
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... spirit- ual element is essential to its perfection . The high and divine beauty which can be loved without ef- feminacy , is that which is found in combination with the human will . Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue . Every ...
... spirit- ual element is essential to its perfection . The high and divine beauty which can be loved without ef- feminacy , is that which is found in combination with the human will . Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue . Every ...
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... spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history ; the use of the outer creation , to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation . Every word ...
... spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history ; the use of the outer creation , to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation . Every word ...
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... Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the FATHER . It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies , but that they ...
... Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the FATHER . It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies , but that they ...
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