Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 79
... perfect . What we are , that only can we see . All that Adam had , all that Cæsar could , you have and can do . Adam called his house , heaven and earth ; Cæsar called his house , Rome ; you perhaps call yours , a cobbler's trade ; a ...
... perfect . What we are , that only can we see . All that Adam had , all that Cæsar could , you have and can do . Adam called his house , heaven and earth ; Cæsar called his house , Rome ; you perhaps call yours , a cobbler's trade ; a ...
Page 80
... is beyond his dream of God , - he shall enter without more won- - - der than the blind man feels who is gradually re- stored to perfect sight . ' THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI 80 PROSPECTS .
... is beyond his dream of God , - he shall enter without more won- - - der than the blind man feels who is gradually re- stored to perfect sight . ' THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI 80 PROSPECTS .
Page 89
... perfect . As no air- pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum , so neither can any artist entirely exclude the con- ventional , the local , the perishable from his book THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 89.
... perfect . As no air- pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum , so neither can any artist entirely exclude the con- ventional , the local , the perishable from his book THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 89.
Page 90
... perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue . Instantly the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , slow to open to the incur- sions of Reason , having once ...
... perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue . Instantly the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , slow to open to the incur- sions of Reason , having once ...
Page 104
... perfect comprehension of its nature and extent ; he will have made his hands meet on the other side , and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior . The world is his who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone ...
... perfect comprehension of its nature and extent ; he will have made his hands meet on the other side , and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior . The world is his who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone ...
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