Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 28
... things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed ...
... things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed ...
Page 31
... are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spiritual nature . Most of the process by which this trans- THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, Aug 31, 1837 81.
... are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spiritual nature . Most of the process by which this trans- THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, Aug 31, 1837 81.
Page 32
... things , which they convert into verbs , and apply to analogous mental acts . It 2. But this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import , so conspicuous a fact in the his- tory of language , is our least debt to nature . is not ...
... things , which they convert into verbs , and apply to analogous mental acts . It 2. But this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import , so conspicuous a fact in the his- tory of language , is our least debt to nature . is not ...
Page 34
... things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until its infancy , when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are ...
... things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more picturesque , until its infancy , when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are ...
Page 35
... things which are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stim- ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of LANGUAGE . 35.
... things which are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stim- ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of LANGUAGE . 35.
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