Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 54
... mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my win- dow should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also . We pass what we are ...
... mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my win- dow should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also . We pass what we are ...
Page 57
... means into the shade . This all great men are and do . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought ; -- and posterity seem to follow his steps as a ...
... means into the shade . This all great men are and do . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought ; -- and posterity seem to follow his steps as a ...
Page 61
... means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by re- lation to it , one thing as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their ...
... means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by re- lation to it , one thing as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their ...
Page 70
... means to effect a private end , is theft and meanness . It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness . As soon as the man is at one with God , he will not beg . He will then see prayer in all action . The prayer of the ...
... means to effect a private end , is theft and meanness . It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness . As soon as the man is at one with God , he will not beg . He will then see prayer in all action . The prayer of the ...
Page 72
... means , so that the walls of the system blend to their eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe ; the luminaries of heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imagine how you aliens have any ...
... means , so that the walls of the system blend to their eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe ; the luminaries of heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imagine how you aliens have any ...
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