 The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages, and a measure of coal; a thousand...  The North British Review - Seite 2771867Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 Seiten
...can do nothing but mischief off it; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...pages — leaf after leaf — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 Seiten
...nothing but mischief off of it ; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...pages— leaf after leaf — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite ; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate ; a thousand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 Seiten
...do nothing but mischief off of it; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 Seiten
...nothing but mischief off of it ; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the i/' gigantic pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor... | |
 | 1872 - 532 Seiten
...: " No statement of the Universe can have any soundness which does not admit the ascending effort. The Book of Nature is the Book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf, never re - turning one." Thus, while the ancients believed that everything was God, modern materialists are... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 Seiten
...says, "No statement of the universe can have any soundness which does not admit the ascending effort. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...gigantic pages leaf after leaf, never returning one." Such are some of the seemingly fatal flaws in the foundations on which evolutionists are still busily... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 Seiten
...nothing but mischief off of it ; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...pages, — leaf after leaf, — never re-turning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite ; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate ; a thousand... | |
 | William Wirt Kinsley - 1881 - 392 Seiten
...says, " No statement of the universe can have any soundness which does not admit the ascending effort. The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns...gigantic pages leaf after leaf, never re-turning one." Such are some of the seemingly fatal flaws in the foundations on which evolutionists are still busily... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 Seiten
...ancient Utilitarianism, untrue to nature, or, like modern Utilitarianism, hardly consistent with itself. The question regarding the relations of good and evil...Emerson's intuitions are clear, but his logic is cloudy : he seldom allows himself to be pinned down to a definite belief. " The slippery Proteus " evades... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 Seiten
...ancient Utilitarianism, untrue to nature, or, like modern Utilitarianism, hardly consistent with itself. The question regarding the relations of good and evil...Emerson's intuitions are clear, but his logic is cloudy : he seldom allows himself to be pinned down to a definite belief. " The slippery Proteus " evades... | |
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