Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 33
... stone , water , and wood ? Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society ? Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man . A mind might ponder its 3 HISTORY . 33.
... stone , water , and wood ? Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society ? Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man . A mind might ponder its 3 HISTORY . 33.
Page 36
... into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read , than the dissector or the antiquary . - - SELF - RELIANCE . " Ne te quæsiveris extra . 36 ESSAY I.
... into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read , than the dissector or the antiquary . - - SELF - RELIANCE . " Ne te quæsiveris extra . 36 ESSAY I.
Page 41
... , and advancing on Chaos and the Dark . What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text , in the face and behaviour of children , babes , and even brutes ! That divided and rebel mind , that distrust SELF - RELIANCE . 41.
... , and advancing on Chaos and the Dark . What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text , in the face and behaviour of children , babes , and even brutes ! That divided and rebel mind , that distrust SELF - RELIANCE . 41.
Page 44
... child , I will live then from the Devil . " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily transfera- ble to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution , the only wrong ...
... child , I will live then from the Devil . " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily transfera- ble to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution , the only wrong ...
Page 57
... children will see it after me , and in course of time , all mankind , although it may chance that no one has seen it before me . For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are ...
... children will see it after me , and in course of time , all mankind , although it may chance that no one has seen it before me . For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are ...
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