The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... whole scale of experience , and is repre- sentative of man , in 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 ...
... whole scale of experience , and is repre- sentative of man , in 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 ...
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... whole new experience to unfold ; he will tell us how it was with him , and all men will be the richer in his fortune . For the experience of each new age requires a new confession , and the world seems always waiting for its poet . I ...
... whole new experience to unfold ; he will tell us how it was with him , and all men will be the richer in his fortune . For the experience of each new age requires a new confession , and the world seems always waiting for its poet . I ...
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... whole , and in every part . Every line we can draw in the sand has expression ; and there is no body without its spirit or genius . All form is an effect of character ; all condition , of the quality of the life ; all harmony , of ...
... whole , and in every part . Every line we can draw in the sand has expression ; and there is no body without its spirit or genius . All form is an effect of character ; all condition , of the quality of the life ; all harmony , of ...
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... whole sense of nature ; and the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs , of low and high , honest and base , disap- pear when nature is used as a symbol . Thought makes everything fit for use . The vocabulary of an ...
... whole sense of nature ; and the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs , of low and high , honest and base , disap- pear when nature is used as a symbol . Thought makes everything fit for use . The vocabulary of an ...
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... Whole , -re - attaching even artificial things and viola- tion of nature , to nature , by a deeper insight , - disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts . Readers of poetry see the factory - village 18 THE POET.
... Whole , -re - attaching even artificial things and viola- tion of nature , to nature , by a deeper insight , - disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts . Readers of poetry see the factory - village 18 THE POET.
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