Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 15
... to reason and faith . feel that nothing can befall me in life , grace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , There I no dis- - -my head bathed by the blithe air , and NATURE . 15.
... to reason and faith . feel that nothing can befall me in life , grace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , There I no dis- - -my head bathed by the blithe air , and NATURE . 15.
Page 28
... stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is ...
... stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is ...
Page 30
... eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expres- sion of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use 30 BEAUTY .
... eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expres- sion of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use 30 BEAUTY .
Page 35
... stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stim- ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of ...
... stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stim- ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of ...
Page 38
... stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the question whether the charac- ters are not significant of themselves . Have moun- tains , and waveČ™ , and skies , no significance but what we consciously give them when we ...
... stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the question whether the charac- ters are not significant of themselves . Have moun- tains , and waveČ™ , and skies , no significance but what we consciously give them when we ...
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