Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 pages |
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... better emotion coming over me , when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right . Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in Nature , but in man , or in a harmony of both . It is necessary to use ...
... better emotion coming over me , when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right . Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in Nature , but in man , or in a harmony of both . It is necessary to use ...
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... better consideration , we may distribute the aspects of Beauty in a threefold manner . I First , the simple perception of natural forms is a delight , The influence of the forms and actions in Nature , is so needful to man , that , in ...
... better consideration , we may distribute the aspects of Beauty in a threefold manner . I First , the simple perception of natural forms is a delight , The influence of the forms and actions in Nature , is so needful to man , that , in ...
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... better than good dreams , unless they be executed ! " The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of Debt and Credit . Debt , grinding Debt , whose iron face the widow , the orphan , and the sons of genius fear ...
... better than good dreams , unless they be executed ! " The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of Debt and Credit . Debt , grinding Debt , whose iron face the widow , the orphan , and the sons of genius fear ...
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... better say of matter what Michael Angelo said of external beauty , " It is the frail and weary weed in which God dresses the soul , which he has called into time . It appears that motion , poetry , physical and intellectual science ...
... better say of matter what Michael Angelo said of external beauty , " It is the frail and weary weed in which God dresses the soul , which he has called into time . It appears that motion , poetry , physical and intellectual science ...
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... is its enemy . It accepts whatsoever befalls , as part of its lesson . It is a watcher more than a doer ; and it is a doer , only that it may the better watch . IT CHAPTER VII . SPIRIT . T is essential to Idealism . 61.
... is its enemy . It accepts whatsoever befalls , as part of its lesson . It is a watcher more than a doer ; and it is a doer , only that it may the better watch . IT CHAPTER VII . SPIRIT . T is essential to Idealism . 61.
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Page 79 - Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be 78 and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Page 8 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Page 85 - Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — Is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
Page 253 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 27 - It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
Page 10 - Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Page 5 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Page 88 - Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Page 81 - In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained.
Page 6 - There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.