The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages, and a measure of coal; a thousand... The North British Review - Página 2771867Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 páginas
...can do nothing but mischief off it; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...pages — leaf after leaf — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 páginas
...nothing but mischief off of it ; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...pages— leaf after leaf — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite ; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate ; a thousand... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 páginas
...do nothing but mischief off of it; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 páginas
...nothing but mischief off of it ; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the i/' gigantic pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor... | |
| 1872 - 532 páginas
...: " No statement of the Universe can have any soundness which does not admit the ascending effort. The Book of Nature is the Book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf, never re - turning one." Thus, while the ancients believed that everything was God, modern materialists are... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 páginas
...says, "No statement of the universe can have any soundness which does not admit the ascending effort. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...gigantic pages leaf after leaf, never returning one." Such are some of the seemingly fatal flaws in the foundations on which evolutionists are still busily... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 páginas
...nothing but mischief off of it ; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite ; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate ; a thousand... | |
| William Wirt Kinsley - 1881 - 392 páginas
...says, " No statement of the universe can have any soundness which does not admit the ascending effort. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...gigantic pages leaf after leaf, never re-turning one." Such are some of the seemingly fatal flaws in the foundations on which evolutionists are still busily... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 496 páginas
...ancient Utilitarianism, untrue to nature, or, like modern Utilitarianism, hardly consistent with itself. The question regarding the relations of good and evil...Emerson's intuitions are clear, but his logic is cloudy : he seldom allows himself to be pinned down to a definite belief. " The slippery Proteus " evades... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 528 páginas
...ancient Utilitarianism, untrue to nature, or, like modern Utilitarianism, hardly consistent with itself. The question regarding the relations of good and evil...Emerson's intuitions are clear, but his logic is cloudy : he seldom allows himself to be pinned down to a definite belief. " The slippery Proteus " evades... | |
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