The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists . In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line . Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the ...
... Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists . In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line . Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the ...
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... Heraclitus , Empedocles , Plato , Plotinus , Olym- piodorus , Proclus , Synesius and the rest , have somewhat so vast in their logic , so primary in their thinking , that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric ...
... Heraclitus , Empedocles , Plato , Plotinus , Olym- piodorus , Proclus , Synesius and the rest , have somewhat so vast in their logic , so primary in their thinking , that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric ...
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... Heraclitus , grown old , complains that all resolved itself into identity . . . . And I have nothing char- actered in my brain that outlives this word Compensation . 66 - Three years later , in 1834 , he wrote the verses entitled ...
... Heraclitus , grown old , complains that all resolved itself into identity . . . . And I have nothing char- actered in my brain that outlives this word Compensation . 66 - Three years later , in 1834 , he wrote the verses entitled ...
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