Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 14
... wise spirit . The flowers , the ani- mals , the mountains , reflected the wisdom of his best hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most ...
... wise spirit . The flowers , the ani- mals , the mountains , reflected the wisdom of his best hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most ...
Page 36
... wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things ; so that pictur- esque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God . The moment our discourse ...
... wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things ; so that pictur- esque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God . The moment our discourse ...
Page 39
... wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf ; " Can these things be , And overcome us like a summer's cloud , Without our special wonder ? 99 for the universe becomes transparent , and the light of higher laws than ...
... wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf ; " Can these things be , And overcome us like a summer's cloud , Without our special wonder ? 99 for the universe becomes transparent , and the light of higher laws than ...
Page 44
... wise man shows his wisdom in separa- tion , in gradation , and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature . The foolish have no range in their scale , but suppose every man is as every other man . What is not good they ...
... wise man shows his wisdom in separa- tion , in gradation , and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature . The foolish have no range in their scale , but suppose every man is as every other man . What is not good they ...
Page 46
... wise and melodious words , and gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command . One after another his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things , until the world becomes at last only a real- ized will , the double of ...
... wise and melodious words , and gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command . One after another his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things , until the world becomes at last only a real- ized will , the double of ...
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