The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... appear as it must be done , or be known . Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy . Words are also actions , and actions are a kind of words . The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that ...
... appear as it must be done , or be known . Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy . Words are also actions , and actions are a kind of words . The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that ...
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... appears in the object , far better than its old value ; as the carpenter's stretched cord , if you hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . " Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed ...
... appears in the object , far better than its old value ; as the carpenter's stretched cord , if you hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . " Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed ...
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... appear to me , and perchance to themselves appear upright men ; and whether I appear as a man to all eyes . The Brahmins and Pythagoras propounded the same question , and if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found ...
... appear to me , and perchance to themselves appear upright men ; and whether I appear as a man to all eyes . The Brahmins and Pythagoras propounded the same question , and if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found ...
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... appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle , and though we have health and reason , yet we have no superfluity of spirit for new creation ? We have enough to live and bring the year about , but not an ounce to impart or to ...
... appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle , and though we have health and reason , yet we have no superfluity of spirit for new creation ? We have enough to live and bring the year about , but not an ounce to impart or to ...
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... appear in a given character , whose bound- aries they will never pass ; but we look at them , they seem alive , and we presume there is im- pulse in them . In the moment it seems impulse ; in the year , in the lifetime , it turns out to ...
... appear in a given character , whose bound- aries they will never pass ; but we look at them , they seem alive , and we presume there is im- pulse in them . In the moment it seems impulse ; in the year , in the lifetime , it turns out to ...
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