The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Fields, Osgood, 1870 |
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... rich conveniencies , this ocean of air above , this ocean of water beneath , this firmament of earth between ? this zodiac of lights , this tent of dropping clouds , this striped coat of climates , this fourfold year ? Beasts , fire ...
... rich conveniencies , this ocean of air above , this ocean of water beneath , this firmament of earth between ? this zodiac of lights , this tent of dropping clouds , this striped coat of climates , this fourfold year ? Beasts , fire ...
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... rich landscape , it is less to my pur- pose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata , than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tran- quil sense of unity . I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details ...
... rich landscape , it is less to my pur- pose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata , than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tran- quil sense of unity . I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details ...
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... rich possibilities of the new era ? This time , like all times , is a very good one , if we but know what to do with it . I read with joy some of the auspicious signs of the coming days , as they glimmer already through poetry and art ...
... rich possibilities of the new era ? This time , like all times , is a very good one , if we but know what to do with it . I read with joy some of the auspicious signs of the coming days , as they glimmer already through poetry and art ...
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... rich ; what invitation from every property it gives to every faculty of man ! In its fruitful soils ; in its navigable sea ; in its mountains of metal and stone ; in its forests of all woods ; in its animals ; in its chemical ingredi ...
... rich ; what invitation from every property it gives to every faculty of man ! In its fruitful soils ; in its navigable sea ; in its mountains of metal and stone ; in its forests of all woods ; in its animals ; in its chemical ingredi ...
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... , by the reception of beautiful sentiments . It is true that a great and rich soul , like his , falling among the simple , does so preponderate , that , as his did , it names the world . The world seems to them to exist for ADDRESS . 71.
... , by the reception of beautiful sentiments . It is true that a great and rich soul , like his , falling among the simple , does so preponderate , that , as his did , it names the world . The world seems to them to exist for ADDRESS . 71.
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action Æsop antinomianism appear astronomy beauty behold better character church comes conservatism conversation divine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist experience fact faculties faith fear feel force genius gifts give Goethe hand heart heaven Heraclitus hope hour human ical individual intel intellect labor light ligion live look man's manner marriage means mind moral Napoleon nature never noble objects Parliament of Love party pass perfect persons Phidias Pindar plant Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence reform relations religion rich Rome scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth Zoroaster
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Página 16 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and...
Página 247 - Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Página 35 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 9 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Página 247 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or [his; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Página 245 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins.
Página 66 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
Página 264 - For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under.
Página 245 - 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 thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Página 74 - Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.