Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 19
... hands for the profit of man . The wind sows the seed ; the sun evaporates the sea ; the wind blows the vapor to the field ; the ice , on the other side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; the rain feeds . the plant ; the plant ...
... hands for the profit of man . The wind sows the seed ; the sun evaporates the sea ; the wind blows the vapor to the field ; the ice , on the other side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; the rain feeds . the plant ; the plant ...
Page 37
... hands . - 3. We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did it need such noble races of creatures , this pro- fusion of forms ...
... hands . - 3. We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did it need such noble races of creatures , this pro- fusion of forms ...
Page 38
... usually of a natural fact , selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth . Thus ; A rolling stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer 38 LANGUAGE .
... usually of a natural fact , selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth . Thus ; A rolling stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer 38 LANGUAGE .
Page 43
... Hand of the mind ; to instruct us that " good thoughts are no better than good dreams , unless they be executed ! " - - The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of debt and credit . Debt , grinding debt ...
... Hand of the mind ; to instruct us that " good thoughts are no better than good dreams , unless they be executed ! " - - The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of debt and credit . Debt , grinding debt ...
Page 49
... hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness . Thus architecture is called " frozen music , " by De Staƫl and Goethe . Vitruvius thought an architect should be a musician ...
... hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness . Thus architecture is called " frozen music , " by De Staƫl and Goethe . Vitruvius thought an architect should be a musician ...
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