Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 105
... behold is there only by sufferance , —by your sufferance . See it to be a lie , and you have already dealt it its mortal blow . Yes , we are the cowed , we the trustless . a mischievous notion that we are come late into na- ture ; that ...
... behold is there only by sufferance , —by your sufferance . See it to be a lie , and you have already dealt it its mortal blow . Yes , we are the cowed , we the trustless . a mischievous notion that we are come late into na- ture ; that ...
Page 106
... behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being , — ripened ; yes , and are content to be less , so that may attain to its full stature . What a testi- mony , full of grandeur , full of pity , is borne to the demands of ...
... behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being , — ripened ; yes , and are content to be less , so that may attain to its full stature . What a testi- mony , full of grandeur , full of pity , is borne to the demands of ...
Page 120
... Behold these outrunning laws , which our imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that , but not come full circle . Behold these infinite rela- tions , so like , so unlike ; many , yet one . I would study , I would know , I ...
... Behold these outrunning laws , which our imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that , but not come full circle . Behold these infinite rela- tions , so like , so unlike ; many , yet one . I would study , I would know , I ...
Page 158
... behold Charles the Fifth's day ; another , yet the same ; behold Chatham's , Hampden's , Bay- ard's , Alfred's , Scipio's , Pericles's day , — day of all that are born of women . The difference of cir- cumstance is merely costume . I am ...
... behold Charles the Fifth's day ; another , yet the same ; behold Chatham's , Hampden's , Bay- ard's , Alfred's , Scipio's , Pericles's day , — day of all that are born of women . The difference of cir- cumstance is merely costume . I am ...
Page 187
... behold gimlet , plumb - line , and philosopher take a lateral direc- tion , in spite of all resistance , as if some strong wind took everything off its feet , and if you come month after month to see what progress our re- former has ...
... behold gimlet , plumb - line , and philosopher take a lateral direc- tion , in spite of all resistance , as if some strong wind took everything off its feet , and if you come month after month to see what progress our re- former has ...
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