The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... passage of the world into the soul of man , to suffer there a change and reappear a new and higher fact . He uses forms according to the life , and not according to the form . This is true science . The poet alone knows astronomy ...
... passage of the world into the soul of man , to suffer there a change and reappear a new and higher fact . He uses forms according to the life , and not according to the form . This is true science . The poet alone knows astronomy ...
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... passage of the soul into higher forms . I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden . He was , as I re- member , unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy , but ...
... passage of the soul into higher forms . I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden . He was , as I re- member , unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy , but ...
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... passages are opened for us into nature ; the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest , and the metamorphosis is possible . This is the reason why bards love wine , mead , narcotics , coffee , tea , opium , the fumes of ...
... passages are opened for us into nature ; the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest , and the metamorphosis is possible . This is the reason why bards love wine , mead , narcotics , coffee , tea , opium , the fumes of ...
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... 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 - yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed . Hence a great number of such as were professionally ...
... 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 - yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed . Hence a great number of such as were professionally ...
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... passage of a piece of bread down his throat , he would starve . At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens , quite powerless and melancholy . It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay ...
... passage of a piece of bread down his throat , he would starve . At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens , quite powerless and melancholy . It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay ...
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