Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 pages |
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... truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative 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 be ...
... truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative 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 be ...
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... truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its cradle . Nature stretches 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 cradle . Nature stretches 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 ulti- mate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a ...
... Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ulti- mate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a ...
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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 corruption of language . When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires ...
... truth , and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language . When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires ...
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Page 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Page 110 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Page 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Page 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Page 7 - 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 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Page 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Page 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Page 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Page 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.