The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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... force. It was whispered that the globes of the universe were precipitates of something more subtle; nay, somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;—that too was no finality; only provisional, a makeshift; that ...
... force. It was whispered that the globes of the universe were precipitates of something more subtle; nay, somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;—that too was no finality; only provisional, a makeshift; that ...
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... force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against, any more than against the current of Niagara. Such currents, so tyrannical, exist in thoughts, those finest and ...
... force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against, any more than against the current of Niagara. Such currents, so tyrannical, exist in thoughts, those finest and ...
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... orderly as in a Bible. Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.3 There is one animal, one plant, one matter and one force. The laws of light and of heat 8 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... orderly as in a Bible. Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.3 There is one animal, one plant, one matter and one force. The laws of light and of heat 8 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. and one force. The laws of light and of heat translate each other;—so do the laws of sound and of color; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of the selfsame energy. While the student ponders ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. and one force. The laws of light and of heat translate each other;—so do the laws of sound and of color; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of the selfsame energy. While the student ponders ...
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... force? Push them hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg. The invisible and imponderable is the sole fact. " Why changes not the violet earth into musk?" What is the term of the ever-flowing ...
... force? Push them hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg. The invisible and imponderable is the sole fact. " Why changes not the violet earth into musk?" What is the term of the ever-flowing ...
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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