Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can satisfy . Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put . He acts it as life , before he apprehends it as truth . In like manner , nature ...
... things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can satisfy . Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put . He acts it as life , before he apprehends it as truth . In like manner , nature ...
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... things , as in a house , a canal , a statue , a picture . But his operations taken together are so insignificant , a little chipping , baking , patching , and washing , that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human ...
... things , as in a house , a canal , a statue , a picture . But his operations taken together are so insignificant , a little chipping , baking , patching , and washing , that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human ...
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... things , or such the plastic power of the human eye , that the primary forms , as the sky , the mountain , the tree , the animal , give us a delight in and for them- selves ; a pleasure arising from outline , color , mo- tion , and ...
... things , or such the plastic power of the human eye , that the primary forms , as the sky , the mountain , the tree , the animal , give us a delight in and for them- selves ; a pleasure arising from outline , color , mo- tion , and ...
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... things for which men plough , build , or sail , obey virtue ; " said Sallust . " The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a ...
... things for which men plough , build , or sail , obey virtue ; " said Sallust . " The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a ...
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... genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , — the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty BEAUTY . 27.
... genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , — the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty BEAUTY . 27.
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