The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart . For the Universe has three children , born at one time , which reappear under different names in every system of thought , whether they be called cause , operation and effect ...
... virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart . For the Universe has three children , born at one time , which reappear under different names in every system of thought , whether they be called cause , operation and effect ...
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... virtue of this science the poet is the Namer or Language - maker , naming things sometimes after their appearance , sometimes after their es- sence , and giving to every one its own name and not another's , thereby rejoicing the ...
... virtue of this science the poet is the Namer or Language - maker , naming things sometimes after their appearance , sometimes after their es- sence , and giving to every one its own name and not another's , thereby rejoicing the ...
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... virtue of the soul out of which they came ) which carry them fast and far , and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men . ' These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul . The songs , thus flying immortal from their mor- tal ...
... virtue of the soul out of which they came ) which carry them fast and far , and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men . ' These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul . The songs , thus flying immortal from their mor- tal ...
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... virtue will take care of its own immor- tality . The religions of the world are the ejacu- lations of a few imaginative men . But the quality of the imagination is to flow , and not to freeze . The poet did not stop at the color or the ...
... virtue will take care of its own immor- tality . The religions of the world are the ejacu- lations of a few imaginative men . But the quality of the imagination is to flow , and not to freeze . The poet did not stop at the color or the ...
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... virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of elec- tricity . Nothing walks , or creeps , or grows , or exists , which must not in turn arise and walk before him as exponent of his meaning . Comes he to that power , his ...
... virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of elec- tricity . Nothing walks , or creeps , or grows , or exists , which must not in turn arise and walk before him as exponent of his meaning . Comes he to that power , his ...
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