Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to es- sences unchanged by man ; space , the air , the river , the leaf . Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things , as in a house , a canal , a statue , a ...
... thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to es- sences unchanged by man ; space , the air , the river , the leaf . Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things , as in a house , a canal , a statue , a ...
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... thought or a better emotion coming over me , when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right . Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature , but in man , or in a harmony of both . It is ...
... thought or a better emotion coming over me , when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right . Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature , but in man , or in a harmony of both . It is ...
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... thought and will , he takes up the world into him- self . " All those 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 ...
... thought and will , he takes up the world into him- self . " All those 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 ...
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... thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they 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 ...
... thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they 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 ...
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... thought , and in to man . a simple , double , and three - fold degree . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . 2 ... thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spiritual nature ...
... thought , and in to man . a simple , double , and three - fold degree . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . 2 ... thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spiritual nature ...
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