EssaysMacmillan, 1884 - 538 psl. |
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... nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to our- selves . This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the water- pot , lose their meanness when hung as ...
... nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to our- selves . This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the water- pot , lose their meanness when hung as ...
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... nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpillar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant indi- vidual ; through countless individuals , the fixed species ; through many species , the genus ; through all ...
... nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpillar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant indi- vidual ; through countless individuals , the fixed species ; through many species , the genus ; through all ...
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... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness through- out her works ; and delights in startling us ...
... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness through- out her works ; and delights in startling us ...
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... nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , hen art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading What would statues of the usual size , or neat porches and ...
... nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , hen art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading What would statues of the usual size , or neat porches and ...
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... nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to solid nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus . The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know ...
... nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to solid nature , interprets the riddle of Orpheus . The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know ...
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47 psl. - them heart and life, though they should clothe 'God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers 'and divines. With consistency a great soul has
40 psl. - put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which
44 psl. - world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
56 psl. - 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
43 psl. - Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.^ 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
39 psl. - transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected comer, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark. What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and
89 psl. - No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him," said Burke. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on
316 psl. - fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth
88 psl. - of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies. All things are double, one against another.—Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love.— Give and it shall be given you.—He that
43 psl. - of my fellows any secondary testimony. • What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think . This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It