Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 pages |
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... divine charity nourish man . The useful arts are but reproductions , or new combinations , by the wit of man , of the same natural benefactors . He no longer waits for favouring gales ; but , by means of steam , he realises the fable of ...
... divine charity nourish man . The useful arts are but reproductions , or new combinations , by the wit of man , of the same natural benefactors . He no longer waits for favouring gales ; but , by means of steam , he realises the fable of ...
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... divine beauty which can be loved without effeminacy , is that which is found in com- bination with the human will , and never separate . Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue .. Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is ...
... divine beauty which can be loved without effeminacy , is that which is found in com- bination with the human will , and never separate . Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue .. Every natural action is graceful . Every heroic act is ...
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... divine dies . All good is eternally repro- ductive . The beauty of Nature reforms itself in the mind and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world . Some men even ...
... divine dies . All good is eternally repro- ductive . The beauty of Nature reforms itself in the mind and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world . Some men even ...
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... divine natures without becoming , in some degree , himself divine . Like a new soul , they renew the body . We become physically nimble and lightsome ; we tread on air ; life is no longer irksome , and we think it will never be so . No ...
... divine natures without becoming , in some degree , himself divine . Like a new soul , they renew the body . We become physically nimble and lightsome ; we tread on air ; life is no longer irksome , and we think it will never be so . No ...
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... being . The one is perfect ; the other , incapable of any assurance . The mind is a part of the nature of things ; the world is a divine dream , from which we may presently awake to the glories and cer- tainties Spirit . 63.
... being . The one is perfect ; the other , incapable of any assurance . The mind is a part of the nature of things ; the world is a divine dream , from which we may presently awake to the glories and cer- tainties Spirit . 63.
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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.