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Page viii
... should 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.
... should 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 9
... speak by means of them.' His words and his thoughts are framed by their help. Every noun is an image. Nature gives him, sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and ...
... speak by means of them.' His words and his thoughts are framed by their help. Every noun is an image. Nature gives him, sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and ...
Page 12
... speak prose, but communicates with us by hints, omens, inference and dark resemblances in objects lying all around us.' Nothing so marks a man as imaginative expressions. A figurative statement arrests attention, and is remembered and ...
... speak prose, but communicates with us by hints, omens, inference and dark resemblances in objects lying all around us.' Nothing so marks a man as imaginative expressions. A figurative statement arrests attention, and is remembered and ...
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... speaking to the Father and to matter; in producing apparent imitations ofunapparent natures, and inscribing things unapparent in the apparent fabrication of the world ; ” in other words, the world exists for thought: it is to make ...
... speaking to the Father and to matter; in producing apparent imitations ofunapparent natures, and inscribing things unapparent in the apparent fabrication of the world ; ” in other words, the world exists for thought: it is to make ...
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... speak of the potential or ideal man,—not found now in any one person. You must go through a city or a nation, and find one faculty here, one there, to build the true poet withal. Yet all men know the portrait when it is drawn, and it is ...
... speak of the potential or ideal man,—not found now in any one person. You must go through a city or a nation, and find one faculty here, one there, to build the true poet withal. Yet all men know the portrait when it is drawn, and it is ...
Contents
3 | |
77 | |
ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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