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 - Page 2771867Full view - About this book
| Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...: " 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Biology - 1881 - 392 pages
...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 - American literature - 1882 - 496 pages
...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 - American literature - 1882 - 528 pages
...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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