The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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... eye for a moment . He went to Vienna , to Smyrna , to London . In all the variety of costumes , a carnival , a kaleidoscope of clothes , to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who wore anything like his own dress . He ...
... eye for a moment . He went to Vienna , to Smyrna , to London . In all the variety of costumes , a carnival , a kaleidoscope of clothes , to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who wore anything like his own dress . He ...
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... eyes of experts . We praise the guide , we praise the forest life : But will we sacrifice our dear - bought lore Of books and arts and trained experiment , Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz ? O no , not we ! . ... • Witness the ...
... eyes of experts . We praise the guide , we praise the forest life : But will we sacrifice our dear - bought lore Of books and arts and trained experiment , Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz ? O no , not we ! . ... • Witness the ...
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... eye - teeth , " as we say , childish illusions passing daily away and he seeing things really and compre- hensively , - is made by tribes . It is the learn- ing the secret of cumulative power , of advancing on one's self . It implies a ...
... eye - teeth , " as we say , childish illusions passing daily away and he seeing things really and compre- hensively , - is made by tribes . It is the learn- ing the secret of cumulative power , of advancing on one's self . It implies a ...
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... eye . Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under - surface , getting his hint from the structure of the shin - bone . The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature ...
... eye . Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under - surface , getting his hint from the structure of the shin - bone . The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature ...
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... eye and countenance . All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure , as so much deduction from the merit of Art , and is the attribute of Nature . In painting , bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are ...
... eye and countenance . All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure , as so much deduction from the merit of Art , and is the attribute of Nature . In painting , bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are ...
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