Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... A Lecture read in the Masonic Temple , Boston , January , 1842 309 THE YOUNG AMERICAN . A Lecture read before the Mer- cantile Library Association , in Boston , February 7 , 1844. 341 NATURE . A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next.
... A Lecture read in the Masonic Temple , Boston , January , 1842 309 THE YOUNG AMERICAN . A Lecture read before the Mer- cantile Library Association , in Boston , February 7 , 1844. 341 NATURE . A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next.
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... young and recent . In the cycle of the universal man , from whom the known indi- viduals proceed , centuries are points , and all history is but the epoch of one degradation . ' We distrust and deny inwardly our sympathy with nature ...
... young and recent . In the cycle of the universal man , from whom the known indi- viduals proceed , centuries are points , and all history is but the epoch of one degradation . ' We distrust and deny inwardly our sympathy with nature ...
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... young mind every thing is individual , stands by itself . By and by , it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct , it goes on ...
... young mind every thing is individual , stands by itself . By and by , it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct , it goes on ...
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... young men grow up in libraries , believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero , which Locke , which Bacon , have given ; forgetful that Cicero , Locke , and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books ...
... young men grow up in libraries , believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero , which Locke , which Bacon , have given ; forgetful that Cicero , Locke , and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books ...
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... young grub they shall never see . I would not be hurried by any love of system , by any exaggeration of instincts , to underrate the Book . We all know , that as the human body can be nourished on any food , though it were boiled grass ...
... young grub they shall never see . I would not be hurried by any love of system , by any exaggeration of instincts , to underrate the Book . We all know , that as the human body can be nourished on any food , though it were boiled grass ...
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