The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... plant which grows , like the palm , from within outward . His own affair , though impos- sible to others , he can open with celerity and in sport . It is easy to sugar to be sweet and to nitre to be salt . We take a great deal of pains ...
... plant which grows , like the palm , from within outward . His own affair , though impos- sible to others , he can open with celerity and in sport . It is easy to sugar to be sweet and to nitre to be salt . We take a great deal of pains ...
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... plants convert the minerals into food for animals , so each man converts some raw mate- rial in nature to human use . The inventors of fire , electricity , magnetism , iron , lead , glass , linen , silk , cotton ; the makers of tools ...
... plants convert the minerals into food for animals , so each man converts some raw mate- rial in nature to human use . The inventors of fire , electricity , magnetism , iron , lead , glass , linen , silk , cotton ; the makers of tools ...
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... plants ; Huber , of bees ; Fries , of lichens ; Van Mons , of pears ; Dalton , of atomic forms ; Euclid , of lines ... plant has its parasite , and each created thing its lover and poet . Justice has already been done to steam , to ...
... plants ; Huber , of bees ; Fries , of lichens ; Van Mons , of pears ; Dalton , of atomic forms ; Euclid , of lines ... plant has its parasite , and each created thing its lover and poet . Justice has already been done to steam , to ...
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... plant , and grows ; arrives at the quadruped , and walks ; arrives at the man , and thinks . But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative . He is not only represen- tative , but participant . Like can only be ...
... plant , and grows ; arrives at the quadruped , and walks ; arrives at the man , and thinks . But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative . He is not only represen- tative , but participant . Like can only be ...
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... for one of the sections of the visible world , images , that is , both shadows and reflections ; for the other section , the objects of these images , that is , plants , animals , and the works of art and 68 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
... for one of the sections of the visible world , images , that is , both shadows and reflections ; for the other section , the objects of these images , that is , plants , animals , and the works of art and 68 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
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Page 88 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Page 305 - O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
Page 320 - ... souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
Page 349 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Page 341 - I will write it, — that there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunderstroke, I beseech you by all angels to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by corruption and groans.
Page 14 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Page 339 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life.
Page 316 - The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey...
Page 39 - Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
Page 6 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.