Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 28
... turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good is eternally reproductive . The beauty of nature re - forms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new cre- ation . All men are in some degree ...
... turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good is eternally reproductive . The beauty of nature re - forms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new cre- ation . All men are in some degree ...
Page 55
... turn the street into a puppet - show . The men , the women , talk- ing , running , bartering , fighting , the earnest me- chanic , the lounger , the beggar , the boys , the dogs , are unrealized at once , or , at least , wholly detached ...
... turn the street into a puppet - show . The men , the women , talk- ing , running , bartering , fighting , the earnest me- chanic , the lounger , the beggar , the boys , the dogs , are unrealized at once , or , at least , wholly detached ...
Page 56
... Turn the eyes upside down , by looking at the landscape through your legs , and how agreeable is the picture , though you have seen it any time these twenty years ! ― In these cases , by mechanical means , is suggested the difference ...
... Turn the eyes upside down , by looking at the landscape through your legs , and how agreeable is the picture , though you have seen it any time these twenty years ! ― In these cases , by mechanical means , is suggested the difference ...
Page 74
... turns . We own and disown our relation to We e are like Nebuchadnezzar , de- throned , bereft of reason , and eating grass like an ox . But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? When men are inno- ' A man is a god in ...
... turns . We own and disown our relation to We e are like Nebuchadnezzar , de- throned , bereft of reason , and eating grass like an ox . But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? When men are inno- ' A man is a god in ...
Page 104
... turning rhymes , as a boy whistles to keep his courage up . So is the danger a danger still ; so is the fear worse . Manlike let him turn and face it . Let him look into its eye and search its nature , in- spect its origin , see the ...
... turning rhymes , as a boy whistles to keep his courage up . So is the danger a danger still ; so is the fear worse . Manlike let him turn and face it . Let him look into its eye and search its nature , in- spect its origin , see the ...
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