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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...much of Nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, " Know thyself," and the modern precept, " Study Nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...much of Nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, " Know thyself," and the modern precept, " Study Nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, " Know thyself," and the modern precept, " Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, " Know thyself," and the modern precept, " Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...much of Nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, " Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study Nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, " Know thyself," and the modern precept, " Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in^fine, the ancient precept, " Know thyself," and the modern precept, " Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is, the mind of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fhre, the ancient precept, " Know thyself," and the modern precept, " Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is, the mind of the... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...give a brief r6sum6 of the address to which the closing sentences refer, as it strikes the keynote of much of its author's philosophy. Mr. Emerson begins...warped by it out of our natural orbit. We hear that 1 This criticism appears among the Essays of Mr. Lowell. we may speak. One must be an inventor to read... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...give a brief rtsumt of the address to which the closing sentences refer, as it strikes the keynote of much of its author's philosophy. Mr. Emerson begins...warped by it out of our natural orbit. We hear that 1 This criticism appears among the Essays of Mr. Lowell. we may speak. One must be an inventor to read... | |
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