The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 18
... once a poem . Every new rela- tion is a new word . Also we use defects and de- formities to a sacred purpose , so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye . In the old mythology , mytho- logists ...
... once a poem . Every new rela- tion is a new word . Also we use defects and de- formities to a sacred purpose , so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye . In the old mythology , mytho- logists ...
Page 22
... once a brilliant picture . Language is fos- sil poetry . As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of ani- malcules , so language is made up of images or tropes , which now , in their secondary use ...
... once a brilliant picture . Language is fos- sil poetry . As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of ani- malcules , so language is made up of images or tropes , which now , in their secondary use ...
Page 30
... once seen , we divine that it does not stop . I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics , which also have their tropes , but it is felt in every defi- nition ; as when Aristotle defines space ...
... once seen , we divine that it does not stop . I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics , which also have their tropes , but it is felt in every defi- nition ; as when Aristotle defines space ...
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... Once hav ing tasted this immortal ichor , he cannot have enough of it , and as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections , it is of the last im- portance that these things get spoken . ' What a little of all we know is ...
... Once hav ing tasted this immortal ichor , he cannot have enough of it , and as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections , it is of the last im- portance that these things get spoken . ' What a little of all we know is ...
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... once caught in this trap of so - called sci- ences , any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity . Given such an embryo , such a history must follow . On this platform one lives in a sty of sensualism , and ...
... once caught in this trap of so - called sci- ences , any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity . Given such an embryo , such a history must follow . On this platform one lives in a sty of sensualism , and ...
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