Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 63
... wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother , nor soil my gentle nest . I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man , wherein to establish man all right education tends ; as the ground which to attain is the ...
... wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother , nor soil my gentle nest . I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man , wherein to establish man all right education tends ; as the ground which to attain is the ...
Page 134
... wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office is the first in the world . It is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood . And it is my duty to say to you that the need was never ...
... wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office is the first in the world . It is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood . And it is my duty to say to you that the need was never ...
Page 145
... wishes of those who love us shall impair our freedom , but we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness , and appeal to sympathies far in ad- vance ; and , what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element ...
... wishes of those who love us shall impair our freedom , but we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness , and appeal to sympathies far in ad- vance ; and , what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element ...
Page 168
... wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere , divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street . It is the noble , manlike , just thought , which is the superiority demanded of you , and not ...
... wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere , divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street . It is the noble , manlike , just thought , which is the superiority demanded of you , and not ...
Page 184
... wish to look with sour aspect at the in- dustrious manufacturing village , or the mart of commerce . I love the music of the water - wheel ; I value the railway ; I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires ; I look on trade and ...
... wish to look with sour aspect at the in- dustrious manufacturing village , or the mart of commerce . I love the music of the water - wheel ; I value the railway ; I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires ; I look on trade and ...
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