Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 pages |
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... mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind , history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less ...
... mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind , history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less ...
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... mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the ...
... mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the ...
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... him , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent . He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind 4 ESSAYS .
... him , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent . He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind 4 ESSAYS .
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... mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History - only Biography . Every ...
... mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History - only Biography . Every ...
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... mind . Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if they do not awaken the same train of images , will yet ...
... mind . Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if they do not awaken the same train of images , will yet ...
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Page 32 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 26 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Page 27 - Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Page 33 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 156 - 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 69 - 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 1 - 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 28 - ... what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul...
Page 60 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
Page 30 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.