Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 38
... wisdom , old things pass away , —means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one as much as another . All things are ...
... wisdom , old things pass away , —means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one as much as another . All things are ...
Page 47
... wisdom and virtue , and visits cities and men like a sovereign , and not like an interloper or a valet . I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe , for the purposes of art , of study , and benevolence , so that ...
... wisdom and virtue , and visits cities and men like a sovereign , and not like an interloper or a valet . I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe , for the purposes of art , of study , and benevolence , so that ...
Page 71
... wisdom ; they are proper additions of being . In a virtuous action , I properly am ; in a virtuous act , I add to the world ; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing , and see the darkness receding on the limits of the ...
... wisdom ; they are proper additions of being . In a virtuous action , I properly am ; in a virtuous act , I add to the world ; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing , and see the darkness receding on the limits of the ...
Page 72
... wisdom of St. Bernard , -Nothing can work me damage except myself ; the harm that I sus- tain I carry about with me , and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault . ' In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the ...
... wisdom of St. Bernard , -Nothing can work me damage except myself ; the harm that I sus- tain I carry about with me , and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault . ' In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the ...
Page 79
... wisdom by his hope , knowing that the perception of the inexhaustible- ness of nature is an immortal youth . The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness . We pass in the ...
... wisdom by his hope , knowing that the perception of the inexhaustible- ness of nature is an immortal youth . The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness . We pass in the ...
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