The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... intellect , which delights in detachment or boundary . The poets made all the words , and therefore language is the archives of history , and , if we must say it , a sort of tomb of the muses . For though the origin of most of our words ...
... intellect , which delights in detachment or boundary . The poets made all the words , and therefore language is the archives of history , and , if we must say it , a sort of tomb of the muses . For though the origin of most of our words ...
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... intellect he is capable of a new energy ( as of an intellect doubled on itself ) , by abandonment to the nature of things ; that beside his privacy of power as an individual man , there is a great public power on which he can draw , by ...
... intellect he is capable of a new energy ( as of an intellect doubled on itself ) , by abandonment to the nature of things ; that beside his privacy of power as an individual man , there is a great public power on which he can draw , by ...
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... intellect used as an organ , but with the intellect released from all service and suffered to take its direction from its celestial life ; or as the ancients were wont to express themselves , not with intellect alone but with the ...
... intellect used as an organ , but with the intellect released from all service and suffered to take its direction from its celestial life ; or as the ancients were wont to express themselves , not with intellect alone but with the ...
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... intellect by coming nearer to the fact . These are aux- iliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man , to his passage out into free space , and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up , and of that jail ...
... intellect by coming nearer to the fact . These are aux- iliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man , to his passage out into free space , and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up , and of that jail ...
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... magic of liberty , which puts the world like a ball in our hands . How cheap even the liberty then seems ; how mean to study , when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature ; how 32 THE POET.
... magic of liberty , which puts the world like a ball in our hands . How cheap even the liberty then seems ; how mean to study , when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature ; how 32 THE POET.
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