Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 50
... side . innumerable sides . But it has The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions . Words are finite organs of the infinite mind . They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth . They break , chop , and impoverish it ...
... side . innumerable sides . But it has The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions . Words are finite organs of the infinite mind . They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth . They break , chop , and impoverish it ...
Page 51
... side ; whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us , that we can mend or even analyze them . We cannot choose but love them . When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence , and has ...
... side ; whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us , that we can mend or even analyze them . We cannot choose but love them . When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence , and has ...
Page 104
... side , and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior . The world is his who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone - blind cus -- It is tom , what overgrown error you behold 104 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... side , and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior . The world is his who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone - blind cus -- It is tom , what overgrown error you behold 104 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
Page 108
... side to this un- bounded , unboundable empire . It is one central fire , which , flaming now out of the lips of Etna , light- ens the capes of Sicily , and now out of the throat of Vesuvius , illuminates the towers and vineyards of ...
... side to this un- bounded , unboundable empire . It is one central fire , which , flaming now out of the lips of Etna , light- ens the capes of Sicily , and now out of the throat of Vesuvius , illuminates the towers and vineyards of ...
Page 109
... side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time , like all times ...
... side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time , like all times ...
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