The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 268
... look up and put myself in the at- titude of reception , but from some alien energy the visions come . " The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present , and the only prophet of that which must be , is that great nature in ...
... look up and put myself in the at- titude of reception , but from some alien energy the visions come . " The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present , and the only prophet of that which must be , is that great nature in ...
Page 346
... look parvenues and popular ; for " persuasion is in soul , but necessity is in intellect . " This band of grandees , Hermes , Heraclitus , Empedocles , Plato , Plotinus , Olym- piodorus , Proclus , Synesius and the rest , have somewhat ...
... look parvenues and popular ; for " persuasion is in soul , but necessity is in intellect . " This band of grandees , Hermes , Heraclitus , Empedocles , Plato , Plotinus , Olym- piodorus , Proclus , Synesius and the rest , have somewhat ...
Page 357
... look like giants . " I too see that painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye , its training to the niceties and curiosi- ties of its function . There is no statue like this living man , with his infinite advantage over all ideal ...
... look like giants . " I too see that painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye , its training to the niceties and curiosi- ties of its function . There is no statue like this living man , with his infinite advantage over all ideal ...
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