Essays, Lectures and OrationsW. S. Orr & Company, 1848 - 364 pages |
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... sentiment of duty stands neither upon tradition nor common agreement , on the principle of " utility , " or " the preponder- ance of the moral sentiments acting with enlightened intellect . " For him it suffices that we feel the sublime ...
... sentiment of duty stands neither upon tradition nor common agreement , on the principle of " utility , " or " the preponder- ance of the moral sentiments acting with enlightened intellect . " For him it suffices that we feel the sublime ...
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... sentiments , proceeding from a man of genius , cannot fail to impart additional strength and dignity to a yet infant literature . Emerson , it has been remarked , much resembles Thomas Carlyle , but mostly with a difference . Carlyle ...
... sentiments , proceeding from a man of genius , cannot fail to impart additional strength and dignity to a yet infant literature . Emerson , it has been remarked , much resembles Thomas Carlyle , but mostly with a difference . Carlyle ...
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... sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding . Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums ...
... sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding . Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums ...
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... sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confu- sion of tradition and the caricature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who dis- close to us new ...
... sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confu- sion of tradition and the caricature of institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who dis- close to us new ...
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... sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of ...
... sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of ...
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Page 186 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 30 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Page 194 - 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 ix - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Page 344 - 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 the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Page 344 - What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Page 230 - For us the winds do blow; The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws; Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause.
Page 196 - 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 344 - The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Page 342 - What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body...