EssaysPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1850 - 333 pages |
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... young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the ...
... young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the ...
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... in the individual's private life . The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and - that without producing indignation , but only fear and HISTORY . 25.
... in the individual's private life . The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and - that without producing indignation , but only fear and HISTORY . 25.
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... young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser , who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church . On my saying , What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions , if I live wholly from within ? my friend ...
... young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser , who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church . On my saying , What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions , if I live wholly from within ? my friend ...
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... young person . I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spar- A tan fife . Let ...
... young person . I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spar- A tan fife . Let ...
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... young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart . If the young merchant fails , men say he is ruined . If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges , and is not installed in an office within one year ...
... young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart . If the young merchant fails , men say he is ruined . If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges , and is not installed in an office within one year ...
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Page 37 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 44 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Page 245 - Meantime within man is the soul 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 269 - The soul gives itself alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original, and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light its own, and feels that the grass grows, and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on its nature.
Page 53 - An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome " ; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
Page 46 - Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.
Page 86 - To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.
Page 61 - Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not.
Page 160 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 61 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes ; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.