Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 35
... gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong - natured farmer or backwoodsman , which all men relish . A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol , and so to utter it , depends on the simplicity of his character ...
... gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong - natured farmer or backwoodsman , which all men relish . A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol , and so to utter it , depends on the simplicity of his character ...
Page 38
... give them when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblem- atic . Parts of speech are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of mat- ter as ...
... give them when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblem- atic . Parts of speech are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of mat- ter as ...
Page 42
... give us sincerest lessons , day by day , whose meaning is un- limited . They educate both the Understanding and the Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or re- sistance , its inertia , its ...
... give us sincerest lessons , day by day , whose meaning is un- limited . They educate both the Understanding and the Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or re- sistance , its inertia , its ...
Page 46
... gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command . One after another his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things , until the world becomes at last only a real- ized will , the double of the man . 2. Sensible objects ...
... gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command . One after another his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things , until the world becomes at last only a real- ized will , the double of the man . 2. Sensible objects ...
Page 55
... gives the whole world a pictorial air . A man who seldom rides , needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town , to turn the street into a puppet - show . The men , the women , talk- ing , running , bartering , fighting , the ...
... gives the whole world a pictorial air . A man who seldom rides , needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town , to turn the street into a puppet - show . The men , the women , talk- ing , running , bartering , fighting , the ...
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