Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 259
... behold is only an aspiration , or is our honest effort also . - - We are all discerners of spirits . That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power . The inter- course of society , its trade , its religion , its friend ...
... behold is only an aspiration , or is our honest effort also . - - We are all discerners of spirits . That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power . The inter- course of society , its trade , its religion , its friend ...
Page 269
... Behold , it saith , I am born into the great , the universal mind . I , the imperfect , adore my own Perfect . I am somehow receptive of the great soul , and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars , and feel them to be the fair ...
... Behold , it saith , I am born into the great , the universal mind . I , the imperfect , adore my own Perfect . I am somehow receptive of the great soul , and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars , and feel them to be the fair ...
Page 297
... behold it as a god upraised above care and fear . And so any fact in our life , or any record of our fancies or reflec- tions , disentangled from the web of our unconscious- ness , becomes an object impersonal and immortal . It is the ...
... behold it as a god upraised above care and fear . And so any fact in our life , or any record of our fancies or reflec- tions , disentangled from the web of our unconscious- ness , becomes an object impersonal and immortal . It is the ...
Page 302
... behold , all the mats and rubbish which had lit- tered his garret become precious . Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle , revisits the day , and delights all men by its piquancy and ...
... behold , all the mats and rubbish which had lit- tered his garret become precious . Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle , revisits the day , and delights all men by its piquancy and ...
Page 320
... behold what is carved and painted , as students of the mystery of Form . The virtue of art lies in de- tachment , in sequestering one object from the embar- rassing variety . Until one thing comes out from the connection of things ...
... behold what is carved and painted , as students of the mystery of Form . The virtue of art lies in de- tachment , in sequestering one object from the embar- rassing variety . Until one thing comes out from the connection of things ...
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