Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 96
... experience , so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted , or so far have I extended my being , my dominion . I do not see how any man can afford , for the sake of his nerves and his nap , to spare any action in which he can ...
... experience , so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted , or so far have I extended my being , my dominion . I do not see how any man can afford , for the sake of his nerves and his nap , to spare any action in which he can ...
Page 136
... experience had he yet imported into his doc- trine . This man had ploughed and planted and talked and bought and sold ; he had read books ; he had eaten and drunken ; his head aches , his heart throbs ; he smiles and suffers ; yet was ...
... experience had he yet imported into his doc- trine . This man had ploughed and planted and talked and bought and sold ; he had read books ; he had eaten and drunken ; his head aches , his heart throbs ; he smiles and suffers ; yet was ...
Page 164
... . Is it otherwise with civil history ? Is it not the lesson of our experience that every man , were life long enough , would write history for himself ? . What else do these volumes of extracts and manu- 164 LITERARY ETHICS .
... . Is it otherwise with civil history ? Is it not the lesson of our experience that every man , were life long enough , would write history for himself ? . What else do these volumes of extracts and manu- 164 LITERARY ETHICS .
Page 168
... experience , but they wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere , divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street . It is the noble , manlike , just thought , which is the superiority ...
... experience , but they wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere , divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street . It is the noble , manlike , just thought , which is the superiority ...
Page 169
... - come falls the imprisoning rain , dear hermitage of nature . Re - collect the spirits . Have solitary prayer and praise . Digest and correct the past experience ; and blend it with the new and divine LITERARY ETHICS . 169.
... - come falls the imprisoning rain , dear hermitage of nature . Re - collect the spirits . Have solitary prayer and praise . Digest and correct the past experience ; and blend it with the new and divine LITERARY ETHICS . 169.
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