MiscellaniesMacmillan, 1884 - 321 pages |
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Page xii
... any shackles of proscription . The pulpit in our age certainly gives forth an obstructed and uncertain sound ; and the faith of those in it , if men of genius , may differ so much from that of those under it xii INTRODUCTORY .
... any shackles of proscription . The pulpit in our age certainly gives forth an obstructed and uncertain sound ; and the faith of those in it , if men of genius , may differ so much from that of those under it xii INTRODUCTORY .
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... genius , he had no direction to give , and was only able in vague and turbid torrents of words to hide a shallow and obsolete lesson . His confession to Emerson , quoted above , looks as if at last he had found this out for himself . If ...
... genius , he had no direction to give , and was only able in vague and turbid torrents of words to hide a shallow and obsolete lesson . His confession to Emerson , quoted above , looks as if at last he had found this out for himself . If ...
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... earth sympathise with Jesus . And in common life , whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things VOL L c along with him , —the persons , the opinions , BEAUTY . 17.
... earth sympathise with Jesus . And in common life , whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things VOL L c along with him , —the persons , the opinions , BEAUTY . 17.
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... genius since the world began ; from the era of the Egyptians and the Brahmins , to that of Pythagoras , of Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet ...
... genius since the world began ; from the era of the Egyptians and the Brahmins , to that of Pythagoras , of Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet ...
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... genius fear and hate ; -debt , which consumes so much time , which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a pre- ceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone , and is needed most by those who suffer from ...
... genius fear and hate ; -debt , which consumes so much time , which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a pre- ceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone , and is needed most by those who suffer from ...
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Page lxi - Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. ; I become a transparent eye-ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God.
Page 6 - 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...
Page 210 - What does he, therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs ; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, with all the locks and keys, into his custody ; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion ; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
Page 79 - We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.
Page lxi - In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
Page lix - 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.
Page lvi - Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
Page 11 - No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the allfair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Page 56 - To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
Page 12 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.