Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 73
... feel that the ends of study and com- position are best answered by announcing undis- covered regions of thought , and so communicating , through hope , new activity to the torpid spirit . I shall therefore conclude this essay with some ...
... feel that the ends of study and com- position are best answered by announcing undis- covered regions of thought , and so communicating , through hope , new activity to the torpid spirit . I shall therefore conclude this essay with some ...
Page 80
... such as now is beyond his dream of God , - he shall enter without more won- - - der than the blind man feels who is gradually re- stored to perfect sight . ' THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI 80 PROSPECTS .
... such as now is beyond his dream of God , - he shall enter without more won- - - der than the blind man feels who is gradually re- stored to perfect sight . ' THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI 80 PROSPECTS .
Page 97
... feel or know it than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life , - remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life . In some contemplative hour it detaches itself from the life ...
... feel or know it than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life , - remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life . In some contemplative hour it detaches itself from the life ...
Page 100
... feel the force of his constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it can be measured by any public and designed display . Time shall teach him that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives . Herein he unfolds the ...
... feel the force of his constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it can be measured by any public and designed display . Time shall teach him that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives . Herein he unfolds the ...
Page 102
... feel all confidence in himself , and to defer never to the popular cry . He and he only knows the world . The world of any moment is the merest appearance . Some great decorum , some fetish of a government , some ephemeral trade , or ...
... feel all confidence in himself , and to defer never to the popular cry . He and he only knows the world . The world of any moment is the merest appearance . Some great decorum , some fetish of a government , some ephemeral trade , or ...
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