Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 183
... trade , or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts , enchants the eyes of all the rest ; the luck of one is the hope of thousands , and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the.
... trade , or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts , enchants the eyes of all the rest ; the luck of one is the hope of thousands , and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the.
Page 184
... trade and every mechanical craft as education also . But let me dis- criminate what is precious herein . There is in each of these works an act of invention , an intellectual step , or short series of steps , taken ; that act or step is ...
... trade and every mechanical craft as education also . But let me dis- criminate what is precious herein . There is in each of these works an act of invention , an intellectual step , or short series of steps , taken ; that act or step is ...
Page 197
... trade , an art , a science , a mode of living , a conversation , a character , an influence . You admire pictures , but it is as impossible for you to paint a right picture as for grass to bear apples . But when the genius comes , it ...
... trade , an art , a science , a mode of living , a conversation , a character , an influence . You admire pictures , but it is as impossible for you to paint a right picture as for grass to bear apples . But when the genius comes , it ...
Page 205
... trade ; an unimpeded mind , and not a monkish diet ; sympa- thy and usefulness , and not hoeing or coopering Tell me not how great your project is , the civil lib- eration of the world , its conversion into a Christian church , the ...
... trade ; an unimpeded mind , and not a monkish diet ; sympa- thy and usefulness , and not hoeing or coopering Tell me not how great your project is , the civil lib- eration of the world , its conversion into a Christian church , the ...
Page 220
... trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft , and supple to the borders ( if not beyond the borders ) of fraud . The employments of com- merce are not intrinsically unfit for a man , or less genial to his faculties ; but these are ...
... trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft , and supple to the borders ( if not beyond the borders ) of fraud . The employments of com- merce are not intrinsically unfit for a man , or less genial to his faculties ; but these are ...
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