Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences ...
... objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects surface differences ...
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... objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intellectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit ...
... objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intellectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit ...
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... object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit ...
... object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit ...
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... object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit ...
... object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit ...
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... object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore ...
... object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore ...
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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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