The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... side of the planet , con- denses rain on this ; the rain feeds the plant ; the plant feeds the animal ; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man . The useful arts are reproductions or new combinations by the ...
... side of the planet , con- denses rain on this ; the rain feeds the plant ; the plant feeds the animal ; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man . The useful arts are reproductions or new combinations by the ...
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... side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs con- sume one day in dying ...
... side of the ablest navigators . " So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs con- sume one day in dying ...
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... side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to em- brace man , only let his thoughts be of ...
... side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretcheth out her arms to em- brace man , only let his thoughts be of ...
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... side . " 99.66 66 This doctrine is abstruse , and though the images of " gar- ment , scoriæ , ' " " mirror , " & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . Every ...
... side . " 99.66 66 This doctrine is abstruse , and though the images of " gar- ment , scoriæ , ' " " mirror , " & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . Every ...
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... side . But it has innumerable sides . The central Unity is still more conspicuous in 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 ...
... side . But it has innumerable sides . The central Unity is still more conspicuous in 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 ...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol ..., Volume 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização integral - 1870 |
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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