Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 96
... hands of those next me , and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work , taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech . I pierce its order ; I dissi- pate its fear ; I dispose of it within the circuit of ...
... hands of those next me , and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work , taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech . I pierce its order ; I dissi- pate its fear ; I dispose of it within the circuit of ...
Page 97
... hand . On this we are quite unable to speculate . Our affections as yet circulate through it . We no more feel or know it than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life , - remains ...
... hand . On this we are quite unable to speculate . Our affections as yet circulate through it . We no more feel or know it than we feel the feet , or the hand , or the brain of our body . The new deed is yet a part of life , - remains ...
Page 100
... hands . And labor is everywhere welcome ; always we are invited to work ; only be this limitation observed , that a man shall not for the sake of wider activ- ity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action . I ...
... hands . And labor is everywhere welcome ; always we are invited to work ; only be this limitation observed , that a man shall not for the sake of wider activ- ity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action . I ...
Page 104
... hands meet on the other side , and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior . The world is his who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone - blind cus -- It is tom , what overgrown error you behold 104 THE ...
... hands meet on the other side , and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior . The world is his who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone - blind cus -- It is tom , what overgrown error you behold 104 THE ...
Page 105
... hands of God , so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it . To ignorance and sin , it is flint . They adapt themselves to it as they may ; but in propor- tion as a man has any thing in him divine , the fir- mament ...
... hands of God , so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it . To ignorance and sin , it is flint . They adapt themselves to it as they may ; but in propor- tion as a man has any thing in him divine , the fir- mament ...
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