The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... Astronomy , Zoology ( those first steps which the farmer , the hunter , and the sailor take ) , teach that Nature's dice are always loaded ; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results . How calmly and genially ...
... Astronomy , Zoology ( those first steps which the farmer , the hunter , and the sailor take ) , teach that Nature's dice are always loaded ; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results . How calmly and genially ...
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... astronomer , the geometer , rely on their irref- ragable analysis , and disdain the results of observation . The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches , " This will be found contrary to all experience , yet is true , ” had ...
... astronomer , the geometer , rely on their irref- ragable analysis , and disdain the results of observation . The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches , " This will be found contrary to all experience , yet is true , ” had ...
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... astronomers announce , shall one day be the pole - star for a thousand years s ? In this hope , I accept the topic which not only usage , but the nature of our association , seem to prescribe to this day , the AMERICAN SCHOLAR . Year by ...
... astronomers announce , shall one day be the pole - star for a thousand years s ? In this hope , I accept the topic which not only usage , but the nature of our association , seem to prescribe to this day , the AMERICAN SCHOLAR . Year by ...
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... astronomer discovers that geometry , a pure abstraction of the human mind , is the measure of planetary motion . The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter ; and science is nothing but the finding of analogy ...
... astronomer discovers that geometry , a pure abstraction of the human mind , is the measure of planetary motion . The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter ; and science is nothing but the finding of analogy ...
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... astronomers , the builders of cities , and the captains , history delights to honor . But when the mind opens , and reveals the laws which trav- erse the universe , and make things what they are , then shrinks the great world at once ...
... astronomers , the builders of cities , and the captains , history delights to honor . But when the mind opens , and reveals the laws which trav- erse the universe , and make things what they are , then shrinks the great world at once ...
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Página 45 - into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce,
Página 61 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience,— patience
Página 397 - truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose
Página 241 - thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought,
Página 241 - conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil
Página 40 - kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. What is a day *? What is a year
Página 354 - And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal, but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE OVER-SOUL. " But souls that of his own good life partake, He loves as his own self; dear as his
Página 27 - woman, house and trade. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul
Página 243 - everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one' of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Página 30 - And^ as the morning steals upon the night, The charm dissolves apace, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Begins to swell : and the approaching tide