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... noble act is done , perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs con- sume one day in dying , and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopyla ; when ...
... noble act is done , perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs con- sume one day in dying , and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopyla ; when ...
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... noble sentiment , again the woods wave , the pines murmur , the river rolls and shines , and the cattle low upon the mountains , as he saw and heard them in his infancy . And with these forms , the spells of persuasion , the keys of ...
... noble sentiment , again the woods wave , the pines murmur , the river rolls and shines , and the cattle low upon the mountains , as he saw and heard them in his infancy . And with these forms , the spells of persuasion , the keys of ...
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... noble emotions dilate the mortal as he enters into the counsels of the creation , and feels by knowledge the privilege to BE ! His insight refines him . The beauty of nature shines in his own breast . Man is greater that he can see this ...
... noble emotions dilate the mortal as he enters into the counsels of the creation , and feels by knowledge the privilege to BE ! His insight refines him . The beauty of nature shines in his own breast . Man is greater that he can see this ...
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... noble doubt perpetually suggests itself , whether this end be not the Final Cause of the Universe ; and whether nature outwardly exists . It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World , that God will teach a human mind ...
... noble doubt perpetually suggests itself , whether this end be not the Final Cause of the Universe ; and whether nature outwardly exists . It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World , that God will teach a human mind ...
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... noble landscape , if la- borers are digging in the field hard by . The poet finds some- thing ridiculous in his delight , until he is out of the sight of men . CHAPTER VIII . PROSPECTS . IN - N inquiries respecting the laws of the world ...
... noble landscape , if la- borers are digging in the field hard by . The poet finds some- thing ridiculous in his delight , until he is out of the sight of men . CHAPTER VIII . PROSPECTS . IN - N inquiries respecting the laws of the world ...
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action Æsop antinomianism appear astronomy beauty behold better character church comes conservatism conversation divine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist experience fact faculties faith fear feel force genius gifts give Goethe hand heart heaven Heraclitus hope hour human ical individual intel intellect labor light ligion live look man's manner marriage means mind moral Napoleon nature never noble objects Parliament of Love party pass perfect persons Phidias Pindar plant Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence reform relations religion rich Rome scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth Zoroaster
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Página 16 - 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...
Página 247 - Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Página 35 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 9 - 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? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Página 247 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or [his; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Página 245 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins.
Página 66 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
Página 264 - For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under.
Página 245 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Página 74 - Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.