Essays, Lectures and OrationsW. S. Orr & Company, 1848 - 364 pages |
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... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If ...
... thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If ...
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... thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
... thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ...
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... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . " Every- where I am bereaved of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
... thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . " Every- where I am bereaved of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God . Every ...
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... thou canst not hope too much or dare too much . There is at this moment , there is for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias , or trowel of the Egyptians , or the pen of Moses , or Dante , but ...
... thou canst not hope too much or dare too much . There is at this moment , there is for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias , or trowel of the Egyptians , or the pen of Moses , or Dante , but ...
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... thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances ...
... thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances ...
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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...