Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 43
... into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read , than the dissector or the antiquary . SELF - RELIANCE . " Ne te quæsiveris extra . HISTORY . 43.
... into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read , than the dissector or the antiquary . SELF - RELIANCE . " Ne te quæsiveris extra . HISTORY . 43.
Page 50
... stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force , because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or ...
... stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force , because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or ...
Page 54
... stand ; alms to sots , and the thousand - fold Relief Societies ; though I confess with shame I some- times succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar , which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold . - Virtues are , in ...
... stand ; alms to sots , and the thousand - fold Relief Societies ; though I confess with shame I some- times succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar , which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold . - Virtues are , in ...
Page 61
... stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true . Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in the face of custom and trade and office , the fact ...
... stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true . Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in the face of custom and trade and office , the fact ...
Page 67
... stands on tiptoe to fore- see the future . He cannot be happy and strong un- til he too lives with nature in the present , above time . This should be plain enough . Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself un- less ...
... stands on tiptoe to fore- see the future . He cannot be happy and strong un- til he too lives with nature in the present , above time . This should be plain enough . Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself un- less ...
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