Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 73
... respect , and we learn to prefer imperfect theories , and sentences which contain glimpses of truth , to digested sys- tems which have no one valuable suggestion . A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and com- position are ...
... respect , and we learn to prefer imperfect theories , and sentences which contain glimpses of truth , to digested sys- tems which have no one valuable suggestion . A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and com- position are ...
Page 90
... respects , to a remote posterity , as to contemporaries , or rather to the second age . Each age , it is found , must write its own books ; or rather , each generation for the next succeeding . The books of an older period will not fit ...
... respects , to a remote posterity , as to contemporaries , or rather to the second age . Each age , it is found , must write its own books ; or rather , each generation for the next succeeding . The books of an older period will not fit ...
Page 112
... , with barriers of natural respect , so that each man shall feel the world is his , and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state , -tends to true union as well as greatness . " 112 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... , with barriers of natural respect , so that each man shall feel the world is his , and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state , -tends to true union as well as greatness . " 112 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
Page 119
... respect the perfection of this world in which our senses converse . How wide ; how rich ; what invi- tation from every property it gives to every faculty of man ! In its fruitful soils ; in its navigable sea ; in its mountains of metal ...
... respect the perfection of this world in which our senses converse . How wide ; how rich ; what invi- tation from every property it gives to every faculty of man ! In its fruitful soils ; in its navigable sea ; in its mountains of metal ...
Page 129
... respect for Moses and the prophets , but no unfit tenderness at postponing their initial reve- lations to the hour and the man that now is ; to the eternal revelation in the heart . Thus was he a true man . Having seen that the law in ...
... respect for Moses and the prophets , but no unfit tenderness at postponing their initial reve- lations to the hour and the man that now is ; to the eternal revelation in the heart . Thus was he a true man . Having seen that the law in ...
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