American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1968 - Fiction |
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... actions . Words are finite organs of the infinite mind . They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth . They break , chop and impoverish it . An action is the perfection and publication of thought . A right action seems to fill ...
... actions . Words are finite organs of the infinite mind . They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth . They break , chop and impoverish it . An action is the perfection and publication of thought . A right action seems to fill ...
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... Action is with the scholar subordinate , but it is essen- tial . Without it he is not yet man . Without it thought can never ripen into truth . Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty , we cannot even see its beauty ...
... Action is with the scholar subordinate , but it is essen- tial . Without it he is not yet man . Without it thought can never ripen into truth . Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty , we cannot even see its beauty ...
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... actions should do them that office . They believe that we communicate without speech and above speech , and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends , at whatever distance ; for the influence of action is not to ...
... actions should do them that office . They believe that we communicate without speech and above speech , and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends , at whatever distance ; for the influence of action is not to ...
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