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" But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury... "
Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 340
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pages
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The Correspondence of Thomas Gray: And the Rev. Norton Nicholls; with Other ...

Thomas Gray, Norton Nicholls - 1843 - 360 pages
...earthly smell came in, exhaled by the sun from the loose and fermenting mould of the garden and fields. " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." I am not so sullen ; I do partake with her, and feel that...
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...those vernal seasons of the year when the air is culm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullen ness against nature not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." His sensibility to impressions from beauty needs no proof...
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The Library of American Biography, Volume 6

Jared Sparks - 1836 - 378 pages
...Hartlib, as if they were a part of the season itself, or at least of his own ever-returning sensation. '; In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with Heaven and earth." His regular and simple habits, his moderate exercise when...
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Miscellanies: Consisting Principally of Sermons and Essays

John Harris - 1844 - 336 pages
...dogs with the joyous gambols of those new-yeaned lambs ? Hear what Milton saith on the subject : " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." Dost thou not feel inclined to go forth at once ? Is not the...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With an Introductory Review, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad ; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much...
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Utopia; Or, the Happy Republic: A Philosophical Romance

Saint Thomas More - 1845 - 356 pages
...10 The author, we see, was no friend to the penances of monkery ; hut thought, like Milton, that " in those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...nature not to go out 'and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." Tractate on Education, § 22. Select Prose Works, 1. 164....
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Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pages
...at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with Heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad ; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness againsl nature, not to go out and s<w her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth....
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The master passion, and other tales and sketches

Thomas Colley Grattan - 1845 - 932 pages
...below; the inagnific hills shooting far up above the clouds ! Was not Milton right when he said, " It were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth ?" Is it not rapture to have burst one's prisonbars — to...
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Utopia: or, The happy republic. To which is added, The new Atlantis, by lord ...

Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 pages
...empty "" The author, we see, was no friend to the penances of monkery; but thought, like Milton, that "in those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an inj»ry and sullenness against nature not to go out fand see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing...
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