Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 83
... look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill . Our day of dependence , our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands , draws to a ...
... look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill . Our day of dependence , our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands , draws to a ...
Page 88
... look forward to an ever ex- panding knowledge as to a becoming creator . He shall see that nature is the opposite of the soul , answering to it part for part . One is seal and one is print . Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind ...
... look forward to an ever ex- panding knowledge as to a becoming creator . He shall see that nature is the opposite of the soul , answering to it part for part . One is seal and one is print . Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind ...
Page 91
... look backward and not forward . But genius looks forward the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates . - Whatever talents may be , if the man create THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 91.
... look backward and not forward . But genius looks forward the eyes of man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates . - Whatever talents may be , if the man create THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 91.
Page 104
... look into its eye and search its nature , in- spect its origin , see the whelping of this lion , — which lies no great way back ; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent ; he will have made his ...
... look into its eye and search its nature , in- spect its origin , see the whelping of this lion , — which lies no great way back ; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent ; he will have made his ...
Page 109
... look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers , and regret the coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has ...
... look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers , and regret the coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has ...
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