The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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... 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 indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,——“I carry my ...
... 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 indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,——“I carry my ...
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... soul. I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected. But these Orientals deal with worlds and pebbles ...
... soul. I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected. But these Orientals deal with worlds and pebbles ...
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... souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated. Many transfigurations have befallen them. The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam, then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood ; and now the beholding ...
... souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated. Many transfigurations have befallen them. The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam, then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood ; and now the beholding ...
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... soul.I Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth, — “ As o'er our heads the seasons roll, And soothe with change {frag/1'1! the soul " ?' Of course, when we describe man as poet, and credit him with the triumphs ...
... soul.I Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth, — “ As o'er our heads the seasons roll, And soothe with change {frag/1'1! the soul " ?' Of course, when we describe man as poet, and credit him with the triumphs ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. namely that the soul generates matter. And poetry is the only verity,— the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal, and not after the apparent.' As a power it is the perception of the symbolic character ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. namely that the soul generates matter. And poetry is the only verity,— the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal, and not after the apparent.' As a power it is the perception of the symbolic character ...
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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