The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material appearance . Right means straight ; wrong means twisted . Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression , the crossing of a line ; su ...
... moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material appearance . Right means straight ; wrong means twisted . Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression , the crossing of a line ; su ...
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... our thoughts ? The world is emblematic . Parts of speech are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature an- swer to those of matter as face to face in 22 MATURE.
... our thoughts ? The world is emblematic . Parts of speech are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature an- swer to those of matter as face to face in 22 MATURE.
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... moral truth . Thus ; A rolling stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun shines ; ' T is hard to carry a full cup even ...
... moral truth . Thus ; A rolling stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun shines ; ' T is hard to carry a full cup even ...
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... moral side . " This doctrine is abstruse , and though the im- ages of " garment , " " scoriæ , " " mirror , " etc. , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . " Every ...
... moral side . " This doctrine is abstruse , and though the im- ages of " garment , " " scoriæ , " " mirror , " etc. , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . " Every ...
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... moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color , and motion ; that every globe in the remotest heaven , every chemical change from the rudest ...
... moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color , and motion ; that every globe in the remotest heaven , every chemical change from the rudest ...
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Page 432 - man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for my sake and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, . . . and in the world to come eternal life.
Page xxxi - NATURE A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. 1
Page 78 - see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this
Page 139 - shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart ; and shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science, with Beauty, and with Joy. LITERARY ETHICS AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, JULY 24, 1838 LITERARY ETHICS
Page 401 - 85, note I. Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return, etc. "Uriel," Poems. Page 86, note I. In this address, and throughout the Essays, and equally the Poems, are evidences of Mr. Emerson's reading in the works of the Masters of Science, — Newton, Laplace, Hunter,
Page xxxviii - the parts, that is, the poet. This is the Best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing.
Page 30 - radiates to the circumference. It is the pith and marrow of every substance, every relation, and every process. All things with which we deal, preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel ? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun, — it is a sacred
Page 35 - does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul ? The relations of parts and the end of the whole remaining the same, what is the difference, whether land and sea interact, and worlds revolve and intermingle without number
Page 17 - gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish. A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate without loss. The corruption of man is
Page 423 - 248, note I. A motto for those days in New England might have been the words put in Rob Roy's mouth by Wordsworth : — Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough ; We '11 show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff.