Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 54
... force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god , feels poor when he looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air , much like a gay equipage , and seem to say like that , ' Who are ...
... force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god , feels poor when he looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air , much like a gay equipage , and seem to say like that , ' Who are ...
Page 56
... force , the last fact behind . which analysis cannot go , all things find their com- mon origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light ...
... force , the last fact behind . which analysis cannot go , all things find their com- mon origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light ...
Page 66
... force , and do lean and beg day and night continually . Our housekeeping is mendicant , our arts , our occupa- tions , our marriages , our religion , we have not cho- sen , but society has chosen for us . We are parlour soldiers . We ...
... force , and do lean and beg day and night continually . Our housekeeping is mendicant , our arts , our occupa- tions , our marriages , our religion , we have not cho- sen , but society has chosen for us . We are parlour soldiers . We ...
Page 73
... force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another , you have only an extem- poraneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can teach him . No man yet knows what it is , nor can ...
... force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another , you have only an extem- poraneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can teach him . No man yet knows what it is , nor can ...
Page 87
... forces is another ex- ample . What we gain in power is lost in time ; and the converse . The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance . The influences of climate and soil in political history are another . The ...
... forces is another ex- ample . What we gain in power is lost in time ; and the converse . The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance . The influences of climate and soil in political history are another . The ...
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