Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 34
... never sleeps , become sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more ...
... never sleeps , become sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more ...
Page 35
... never loses its power to affect us . It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong - natured farmer or backwoodsman , which all men relish . A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol , and so to ...
... never loses its power to affect us . It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong - natured farmer or backwoodsman , which all men relish . A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol , and so to ...
Page 43
... never ending , to form the common sense ; what continual reproduction of annoyances , inconveniences , dilemmas ; what rejoic- ing over us of little men ; what disputing of prices , what reckonings of interest , and all to form the Hand ...
... never ending , to form the common sense ; what continual reproduction of annoyances , inconveniences , dilemmas ; what rejoic- ing over us of little men ; what disputing of prices , what reckonings of interest , and all to form the Hand ...
Page 46
... never weary of working it up . He forges the subtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words , and gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command . One after another his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all ...
... never weary of working it up . He forges the subtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words , and gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command . One after another his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all ...
Page 47
... never omitted . hausted in its first use . When a thing has served an end to the uttermost , it is wholly new for an ulterior service . In God , every end is converted into a new means . Thus the use of commodity , regarded by itself ...
... never omitted . hausted in its first use . When a thing has served an end to the uttermost , it is wholly new for an ulterior service . In God , every end is converted into a new means . Thus the use of commodity , regarded by itself ...
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