Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... cause, the variety of appearance. Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all- creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time, or ...
... cause, the variety of appearance. Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all- creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time, or ...
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... cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable ...
... cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable ...
Page 18
... cause , the variety of appearance . Upborne and surrounded as we are by this allcreating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time ...
... cause , the variety of appearance . Upborne and surrounded as we are by this allcreating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time ...
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... cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon ...
... cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon ...
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... Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting, whaling, war, eloquence, personal weight, are ...
... Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting, whaling, war, eloquence, personal weight, are ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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