Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 71
... 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 circumnaviga- tion of the globe , for the purposes of art , of study , and benevolence , so ...
... 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 circumnaviga- tion of the globe , for the purposes of art , of study , and benevolence , so ...
Page 106
... wisdom . Men suffer all their life long , under the foolish superstition that they can be cheat- ed . But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself , as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time . There ...
... wisdom . Men suffer all their life long , under the foolish superstition that they can be cheat- ed . But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself , as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time . There ...
Page 110
... wisdom of St. Bernard , " Nothing can work me damage except myself ; the harm that I sustain 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 sustain 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 123
... wisdom by his hope , knowing that the perception of the inexhaustibleness 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 inexhaustibleness 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 ...
Page 125
... wisdom which animates all whom it floats , and you are without effort impelled to truth , to right , and a perfect contentment . Then you put all gainsay- ers in the wrong . Then you are the world , the measure of right , of truth , of ...
... wisdom which animates all whom it floats , and you are without effort impelled to truth , to right , and a perfect contentment . Then you put all gainsay- ers in the wrong . Then you are the world , the measure of right , of truth , of ...
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