The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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... interest is grad— ually transferred from the forms to the lurking method.3 This hint, however conveyed, upsets our politics, trade, customs, marriages, nay, the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded.
... interest is grad— ually transferred from the forms to the lurking method.3 This hint, however conveyed, upsets our politics, trade, customs, marriages, nay, the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded.
Page 11
... 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 plain in the spiritual truth they cover. The mind, penetrated with its sentiment or its ...
... 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 plain in the spiritual truth they cover. The mind, penetrated with its sentiment or its ...
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... interest in the landscape, or a peacock, or the song of thrushes. Nature is the true idealist. When she serves us best, when, on rare days, she speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around ...
... interest in the landscape, or a peacock, or the song of thrushes. Nature is the true idealist. When she serves us best, when, on rare days, she speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around ...
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... interests.' Chastity, they admit, is very well,—but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament! Eternal laws are very well, which admit no violation,— but so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit ...
... interests.' Chastity, they admit, is very well,—but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament! Eternal laws are very well, which admit no violation,— but so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit ...
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... interest in visible things to an interest in that which they signify, and from the part of a spectator to the part of a maker. And as everything streams and advances, as every faculty and every desire is procreant, and every perception ...
... interest in visible things to an interest in that which they signify, and from the part of a spectator to the part of a maker. And as everything streams and advances, as every faculty and every desire is procreant, and every perception ...
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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