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Page 45
... trade . In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the re- port of my senses , to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects , what difference does it make , whether Orion is up there in heaven ...
... trade . In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the re- port of my senses , to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects , what difference does it make , whether Orion is up there in heaven ...
Page 64
... trade ; the miracles of enthu- siasm , as those reported of Swedenborg , Hohenlohe , and the Shakers ; many obscure and yet contested facts , now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism ; prayer ; eloquence ; self - healing ; and ...
... trade ; the miracles of enthu- siasm , as those reported of Swedenborg , Hohenlohe , and the Shakers ; many obscure and yet contested facts , now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism ; prayer ; eloquence ; self - healing ; and ...
Page 66
... , Rome ; you perhaps call yours , a cobbler's trade ; a hundred acres of ploughed land ; or a scholar's garret . Yet line for line and point for point , your dominion is as great as theirs , though without 66 PROSPECTS .
... , Rome ; you perhaps call yours , a cobbler's trade ; a hundred acres of ploughed land ; or a scholar's garret . Yet line for line and point for point , your dominion is as great as theirs , though without 66 PROSPECTS .
Page 83
... trades and manufactures ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in art ; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions . I learn imme- diately from any ...
... trades and manufactures ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in art ; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions . I learn imme- diately from any ...
Page 87
... trade , or war , or man , is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half , as if all depended on this partic- ular up or down . The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has ...
... trade , or war , or man , is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half , as if all depended on this partic- ular up or down . The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has ...
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Page 20 - I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.
Page 14 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is. the poet.
Page 78 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Page 32 - The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
Page 93 - If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all.
Page 33 - 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 73 - He shall see that nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal and one is print. Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature,
Page 23 - Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture. A virtuous man is in unison with her works, and makes the central figure of the visible sphere.
Page 9 - Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of...
Page 75 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.