| Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 294 páginas
...agency is not only submissive but is not agency at all. Spirit or "the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power"10 This self is corporate in the sense of having its being as part of a system of laws and forces.... | |
| Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - 1997 - 276 páginas
...spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold... | |
| Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 páginas
...merely protective but is made overtly available for use. . . . the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power . . . The source of this power for human beings rises up through Instinct and is therefore to be drawn... | |
| Robert L. Dorman - 1998 - 278 páginas
...that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts forth through us. ... As the plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God." This condition of integration was experienced most fully in moments of philosophizing and poetic creation... | |
| Michael Caputo - 2000 - 248 páginas
...nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal. AS A PLANT UPON THE EARTH, SO A MAN RESTS UPON THE...FOUNTAINS AND DRAWS, AT HIS NEED, INEXHAUSTIBLE POWER. FRANKLIN, HERE is MY CREED. I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. THAT HE GOVERNS IT BY HlS... | |
| Arthur Versluis - 2001 - 240 páginas
...spiritually, or through ourselves. Therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth branches and leaves through the pores of the old.23 In brief, "the world proceeds from the same spirit... | |
| Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 páginas
...new forms for eternal truths. In Emerson's view, nature is not "built up" around us so much as "put forth" through us, "as the life of the tree puts forth...branches and leaves through the pores of the old." Both the fine and useful arts, and science, too, are all "a nature passed through the alembic of man,"... | |
| Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 páginas
...than fifteen times. "Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul" ( W 1 : 172); "As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God" (W i : 38) — such talk is hardly calculated to appeal to the majority of university researchers who... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 páginas
...spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...the old. As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests on the bosom of God; he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible... | |
| Paul Scott Derrick, Paul Scott - 2003 - 162 páginas
...spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, the spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...branches and leaves through the pores of the old. (Porte 41 ) I would go so far as to say, then, that Emerson's use of the term "metaphor" indicates... | |
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