Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 51
... character retains all its unconscious effect , is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom , it is a sign to us that his office is clos ing , and he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time , - CHAPTER VI . IDEALISM ...
... character retains all its unconscious effect , is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom , it is a sign to us that his office is clos ing , and he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time , - CHAPTER VI . IDEALISM ...
Page 93
... character of the pleasure we derive from the best books . They impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads . We read the verses of one of the great English poets , of Chaucer , of Marvell , of Dryden , with ...
... character of the pleasure we derive from the best books . They impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads . We read the verses of one of the great English poets , of Chaucer , of Marvell , of Dryden , with ...
Page 99
... Character is higher than intellect . Thinking is the function . Living is the function- ary . The stream retreats to its source . A great soul will be strong to live , as well as strong to think . Does he lack organ or medium to impart ...
... Character is higher than intellect . Thinking is the function . Living is the function- ary . The stream retreats to its source . A great soul will be strong to live , as well as strong to think . Does he lack organ or medium to impart ...
Page 112
... character of the visible , audible , tangi- ble world . Especially did his shade - loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature ; he showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms , and ...
... character of the visible , audible , tangi- ble world . Especially did his shade - loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature ; he showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms , and ...
Page 114
... 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 be- long ; and our opinion predicted ...
... 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 be- long ; and our opinion predicted ...
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