Essays, Second Series

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Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1850 - 274 psl.

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53 psl. - leaves no scar. It was caducous. I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The
45 psl. - wherein others are only tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord! sealord ! air-lord! Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with
24 psl. - mechanical inventions you exhibit. Though you add millions, and never so surprising, the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight. The spiritual fact remains unalterable, by many or by few particulars; as no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere. A shrewd
91 psl. - I HAVE read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than any thing which he said. It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution, that when he has told all his facts about
89 psl. - not his hope : Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye : And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than
83 psl. - calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres. He is born into other politics, into the eternal and beautiful. The man at his feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this
226 psl. - Fourierism, and the Millennial Church ; they are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy, and preaching of the day. For these abnormal insights of the adepts, ought to be normal, and things of course. All things show us, that on every side we are
73 psl. - But every insight from this realm of thought is felt as initial, and promises a sequel. I do not make it ; I arrive there, and behold what. was there already. I make ! O no ! I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement, before the first opening to me of this august magnificence, old with the love and homage of innumerable ages,
45 psl. - have the whole land for thy park and manor, the sea for thy bath and navigation, without tax and without envy; the woods and the rivers thou shall own ; and thou shall possess
32 psl. - nearer to the fact. These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space, and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which

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