 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...  Views on Vexed Questions - Seite 30von William Wirt Kinsley - 1881 - 380 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 320 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 - 1883 - 648 Seiten
...nothing but mischief off of it ; or skates, which are wings on the ice, but fetters on the ground. a compensation, but a life. The soul is. Under all...sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite ; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate ; a thousand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 330 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,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1861 - 594 Seiten
...that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.' (pp. 7, 8.) ' The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages—leaf after leaf—never returning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand... | |
 | 1887 - 716 Seiten
...progress, which is Its law. This also is the report of Nature. "The book of Nature," says Emerson, "is a book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf, never returning one. One leaf, she lavs down a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate ; a thousand ages,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 382 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 - 1888 - 324 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 - 1902 - 542 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 returning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite ; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate ; a thousand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1859 - 460 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... | |
 | Charlotte Reeve Conover - 1907 - 278 Seiten
...striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." In geology he is one with Lyell : "The Book of Nature is the Book of Fate. She turns...pages — leaf after leaf — never returning one. One leaf she lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages,... | |
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