Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 37
... cities or the broil of politics . Long hereafter , amidst agitation and terror in national councils , — in the hour of revolu- tion , these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre , as fit symbols and words of the thoughts ...
... cities or the broil of politics . Long hereafter , amidst agitation and terror in national councils , — in the hour of revolu- tion , these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre , as fit symbols and words of the thoughts ...
Page 103
... cities find true for them also . The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions , his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses , until he finds that he is the comple- ment of his hearers ; — that they drink his ...
... cities find true for them also . The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions , his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses , until he finds that he is the comple- ment of his hearers ; — that they drink his ...
Page 120
... cities , and the captains , his- tory delights to honor . But when the mind opens and reveals the laws which traverse the universe and make things what they are , then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration and fable ...
... cities , and the captains , his- tory delights to honor . But when the mind opens and reveals the laws which traverse the universe and make things what they are , then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration and fable ...
Page 169
... cities have been hermits still . Inspiration makes solitude anywhere . Pindar , Raphael , Angelo , Dryden , De Staël , dwell in crowds it may be , but the instant thought comes the crowd grows dim to their eye ; their eye fixes on the ...
... cities have been hermits still . Inspiration makes solitude anywhere . Pindar , Raphael , Angelo , Dryden , De Staël , dwell in crowds it may be , but the instant thought comes the crowd grows dim to their eye ; their eye fixes on the ...
Page 219
... cities , are built on other foundations . The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you ...
... cities , are built on other foundations . The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you ...
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