The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... answers to a moral power , if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active . No wonder then , if these waters be so deep , that we hover over them with a religious ...
... answers to a moral power , if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active . No wonder then , if these waters be so deep , that we hover over them with a religious ...
Page 56
... answer thy question to say , Because thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular ? * The reason of the pain this discovery causes us ( and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect ) is the plaint of tragedy ...
... answer thy question to say , Because thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular ? * The reason of the pain this discovery causes us ( and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect ) is the plaint of tragedy ...
Page 82
... answer to the importunate frivolity of other people ; an atten- tion , and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous . This is a divine answer , and leaves no appeal and no hard thoughts . In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of ...
... answer to the importunate frivolity of other people ; an atten- tion , and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous . This is a divine answer , and leaves no appeal and no hard thoughts . In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of ...
Page 90
... answered Iole , " I was content the moment my eyes fell on him . When I beheld Theseus , I desired that I might see him offer battle , or at least guide his horses in the chariot - race ; but Hercules did not wait for a contest ; he ...
... answered Iole , " I was content the moment my eyes fell on him . When I beheld Theseus , I desired that I might see him offer battle , or at least guide his horses in the chariot - race ; but Hercules did not wait for a contest ; he ...
Page 94
... answer was , " Only that influence which every strong mind has over a weak one . " Cannot Cæsar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey ? Is an iron handcuff so immutable a bond ...
... answer was , " Only that influence which every strong mind has over a weak one . " Cannot Cæsar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey ? Is an iron handcuff so immutable a bond ...
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