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Page vi
... called for the promised book. He applied himself diligently day by day to revising the lecture-sheets and correcting the proofs, dropped on the night before the fire, but accomplished so little that his family saw that the time was come ...
... called for the promised book. He applied himself diligently day by day to revising the lecture-sheets and correcting the proofs, dropped on the night before the fire, but accomplished so little that his family saw that the time was come ...
Page viii
... be remembered that Mr. Emerson always disclaimed the credit for Letter: and Social Aims, and in speaking to Mr. Cabot always called it “ your book." December, 1903. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION T seems proper to mention viii PREFACE.
... be remembered that Mr. Emerson always disclaimed the credit for Letter: and Social Aims, and in speaking to Mr. Cabot always called it “ your book." December, 1903. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION T seems proper to mention viii PREFACE.
Page 6
... called to the independent action of the mind; its strange suggestions and laws; a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own, very difi'erent from the order which this ...
... called to the independent action of the mind; its strange suggestions and laws; a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own, very difi'erent from the order which this ...
Page 11
... called “a kind of adulterated reason." Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm. Their value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made ...
... called “a kind of adulterated reason." Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm. Their value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made ...
Page 14
... called the sea “ the tear of Saturn.” The return of the soul to God was described as “ a flask of water broken in the sea." Saint John gave us the Christian figure of “ souls washed in the blood of Christ.” The aged Michel Angelo ...
... called the sea “ the tear of Saturn.” The return of the soul to God was described as “ a flask of water broken in the sea." Saint John gave us the Christian figure of “ souls washed in the blood of Christ.” The aged Michel Angelo ...
Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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