Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 pages |
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... truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and specu- lative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will ...
... truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and specu- lative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will ...
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... truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow his steps with the ...
... truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow his steps with the ...
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... Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must therefore ...
... Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must therefore ...
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... Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and shine . This universal soul he calls Reason ; it is not mine , or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men ; and the blue sky , in which the private earth is buried the sky , with ...
... Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and shine . This universal soul he calls Reason ; it is not mine , or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men ; and the blue sky , in which the private earth is buried the sky , with ...
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... truth , and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the cor- ruption of language . When simplicity of char- acter , and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary ...
... truth , and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the cor- ruption of language . When simplicity of char- acter , and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary ...
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