Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 13
... sublime . Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had ...
... sublime . Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had ...
Page 34
... sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until its ...
... sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until its ...
Page 56
... sublime is felt , from the fact , probably , that man is hereby apprized that whilst the world is a spectacle , something in himself is stable . 2. In a higher manner the poet communicates the same pleasure . By a few strokes he ...
... sublime is felt , from the fact , probably , that man is hereby apprized that whilst the world is a spectacle , something in himself is stable . 2. In a higher manner the poet communicates the same pleasure . By a few strokes he ...
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... sublime re- mark of Euler on his law of arches , " This will be found contrary to all experience , yet is true ; " had already transferred nature into the mind , and left matter like an outcast corpse . 4. Intellectual science has been ...
... sublime re- mark of Euler on his law of arches , " This will be found contrary to all experience , yet is true ; " had already transferred nature into the mind , and left matter like an outcast corpse . 4. Intellectual science has been ...
Page 84
... sublime ; that there is One Man , present to all particular men only partially , or through one fac- ulty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man . Man is not a farmer , or a professor , or an engineer , but he ...
... sublime ; that there is One Man , present to all particular men only partially , or through one fac- ulty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man . Man is not a farmer , or a professor , or an engineer , but he ...
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