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Page 105
... whole in each object , but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail , and - 1 thinks he can cut off that which he would COMPENSATION 105.
... whole in each object , but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail , and - 1 thinks he can cut off that which he would COMPENSATION 105.
Page 326
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science , cool and disengaged . The intellect goes out of the individual , floats over its own personality , and regards it as a fact , and not as I and mine ...
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science , cool and disengaged . The intellect goes out of the individual , floats over its own personality , and regards it as a fact , and not as I and mine ...
Page 355
This rhetoric , or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object , — so remarkable in Burke , in Byron , in Carlyle , – the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone . The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight ...
This rhetoric , or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object , — so remarkable in Burke , in Byron , in Carlyle , – the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone . The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series Volume 2 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2010 |
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