Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 - 372 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 54
... 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 113
... 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 false- hood . 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 false- hood . And it is my duty to say to you , that the need was never ...
Page 123
... 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 advance ; 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 advance ; and what is the highest ― form in which we know this beautiful element ...
Page 143
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 157
... school , the church , the house , and the very body and feature of man . I do not wish to look with sour aspect at the industri- ous manufacturing village , or the mart of commerce . I love the music of the water - wheel ; I.
... school , the church , the house , and the very body and feature of man . I do not wish to look with sour aspect at the industri- ous manufacturing village , or the mart of commerce . I love the music of the water - wheel ; I.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action appear astronomy beauty becomes behold better born character church comes conservatism divine doctrine earth effeminacy Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist fact faculties faith fear feel genius give Goethe Greece heart heaven Heraclitus honor hope hour human idea ideal theory inspiration intellect justice justice and truth labor land light live look mankind means ment mind moral nature never noble objects persons philosophy Pindar plant Plato Plotinus poet poetry reason reform relation religion rich Rome Saturn scholar seems sense sentiment shines slavery society solitude soul speak spirit stand stars sublime things thou thought tion tism to-day trade Transcendentalist true truth ture unim universal Uranus vate virtue whilst whole wisdom wise wish words worship youth Zoroaster
Popular passages
Page 17 - In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.
Page 71 - Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Page 52 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Page 93 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street...
Page 72 - The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man.
Page 64 - The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
Page 95 - Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
Page 34 - The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
Page 17 - In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,— no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.
Page 96 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit ; — not to be reckoned one character ; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred^, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south ? Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours shall not be so.