The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... things to you in private , but will not stand to them in public . But let us not be the victims of words . Society and solitude are deceptive names . It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people , but the readiness of ...
... things to you in private , but will not stand to them in public . But let us not be the victims of words . Society and solitude are deceptive names . It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people , but the readiness of ...
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... things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art . " Art , univer- sally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle , " The reason of the thing , without the matter . " If we follow the popular ...
... things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art . " Art , univer- sally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle , " The reason of the thing , without the matter . " If we follow the popular ...
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... things by muscular force , but we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity , that is , the weight of the planet , to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield . In short , in all our operations we seek not to use ...
... things by muscular force , but we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity , that is , the weight of the planet , to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield . In short , in all our operations we seek not to use ...
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... things which he saw whilst he stood aside , and then returned to record them . The poet aims at getting observations without aim ; to subject to thought things seen without ( voluntary ) thought . pacifie In eloquence , the great ...
... things which he saw whilst he stood aside , and then returned to record them . The poet aims at getting observations without aim ; to subject to thought things seen without ( voluntary ) thought . pacifie In eloquence , the great ...
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... things changes . The audience is thrown into the attitude of pupil , follows like a child its preceptor , and hears what he has to say . It is as if , amidst the king's council at Madrid , Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained ...
... things changes . The audience is thrown into the attitude of pupil , follows like a child its preceptor , and hears what he has to say . It is as if , amidst the king's council at Madrid , Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained ...
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