Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 72
... hope and love the precise thing to be done by him , considering the climate , the soil , the length of the day , the wants of the people , the habit and form of the govern- ment , he will create a house in which all these will find ...
... hope and love the precise thing to be done by him , considering the climate , the soil , the length of the day , the wants of the people , the habit and form of the govern- ment , he will create a house in which all these will find ...
Page 73
... hope too much or dare too much . There is at this moment for you an ut- terance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias , or trowel of the Egyptians , or the pen of Moses , or Dante , but different from all these . Not ...
... hope too much or dare too much . There is at this moment for you an ut- terance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias , or trowel of the Egyptians , or the pen of Moses , or Dante , but different from all these . Not ...
Page 123
... hope , knowing that the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth . The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness . We pass in the world for sects ...
... hope , knowing that the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth . The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness . We pass in the world for sects ...
Page 128
... hope or fear ? In himself is his might . Let him regard no good as solid , but that which is in his nature , and which must grow out of him as long as he exists . The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves ; let him scatter ...
... hope or fear ? In himself is his might . Let him regard no good as solid , but that which is in his nature , and which must grow out of him as long as he exists . The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves ; let him scatter ...
Page 148
... hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world , - palaces , gardens , money , navies , kingdoms , marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men , these all are his , and by the ...
... hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world , - palaces , gardens , money , navies , kingdoms , marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men , these all are his , and by the ...
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