Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 - 290 pages |
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... passing into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London ...
... passing into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London ...
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... passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . in our man . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not But we apply ...
... passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . in our man . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not But we apply ...
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... passes personally through a Grecian period . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , - of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which ...
... passes personally through a Grecian period . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , - of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which ...
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... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow- beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the ...
... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow- beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the ...
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... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles ...
... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles ...
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Page 215 - ... of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Page 214 - ... that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Page 282 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 58 - Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away,— means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour.
Page 269 - God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but ho shuts the door of truth.
Page 216 - God comes to see us without bell:" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.
Page 96 - Always some damning circumstance transpires. The laws and substances of nature, water, snow, wind, gravitation, become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns...
Page 58 - ... notion. They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing. But perception is not whimsical, but fatal. If I see a trait, my children will see it after me, and in course of time all mankind, — although it may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun.' The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Page 59 - But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
Page 72 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.