The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 11
... principal event in chrono- logy . ' Man , never so often deceived , still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own . With what joy I begin to read a poem which THE POET II.
... principal event in chrono- logy . ' Man , never so often deceived , still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own . With what joy I begin to read a poem which THE POET II.
Page 13
... hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . " Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed through images . " Things admit of being used as sym- bols because nature is a symbol , in the whole ...
... hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . " Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed through images . " Things admit of being used as sym- bols because nature is a symbol , in the whole ...
Page 15
... holds these at as slight a rate as you . His worship is sympathetic ; he has no defi- nitions , but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present .し No imitation or playing of these things would ...
... holds these at as slight a rate as you . His worship is sympathetic ; he has no defi- nitions , but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present .し No imitation or playing of these things would ...
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... hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold ; when John saw , in the Apocalypse , the ruin of the world through evil , and the stars fall from heaven as the fig tree casteth her untimely fruit ...
... hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold ; when John saw , in the Apocalypse , the ruin of the world through evil , and the stars fall from heaven as the fig tree casteth her untimely fruit ...
Page 32
... holds him like an insanity , let me read his paper , and you may have all the arguments and histories and criti- cism . All the value which attaches to Pytha- goras , Paracelsus , Cornelius Agrippa , Cardan , Kepler , Swedenborg ...
... holds him like an insanity , let me read his paper , and you may have all the arguments and histories and criti- cism . All the value which attaches to Pytha- goras , Paracelsus , Cornelius Agrippa , Cardan , Kepler , Swedenborg ...
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