Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 72
... intellect is vagabond , and our system of education fosters restlessness . Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with ...
... intellect is vagabond , and our system of education fosters restlessness . Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with ...
Page 94
... intellect is at once infected , so that the man ceases to see God whole in each ob- ject , but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object , and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head , but not the dragon's tail ...
... intellect is at once infected , so that the man ceases to see God whole in each ob- ject , but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object , and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head , but not the dragon's tail ...
Page 155
... intellect , or as truth . But all is sour , if seen as experience . Details are melan- choly ; the plan is seemly and noble . In the actual world — the painful kingdom of time and place- dwell care , and canker , and fear . With thought ...
... intellect , or as truth . But all is sour , if seen as experience . Details are melan- choly ; the plan is seemly and noble . In the actual world — the painful kingdom of time and place- dwell care , and canker , and fear . With thought ...
Page 157
... intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations . But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such dispar- aging words . For persons are love's world , and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young ...
... intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations . But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such dispar- aging words . For persons are love's world , and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young ...
Page 170
... intellect and the heart , from year to year , is the real marriage , foreseen and prepared from the first , and wholly above their consciousness . Look- ing at these aims with which two persons , a man and a woman , so variously and ...
... intellect and the heart , from year to year , is the real marriage , foreseen and prepared from the first , and wholly above their consciousness . Look- ing at these aims with which two persons , a man and a woman , so variously and ...
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