 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 260 pages
...from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know as I have lived." . . . " The mind now thinks, now acts, and each fit reproduces...when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is... | |
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...relative; profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing." And again : " The mind now thinks, now acts ; and each fit reproduces...materials — when the fancy no longer paints — when thought* are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness — he has always the resourceto live.... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...to us under the name of polarity ; — these ' fits of easy transmission and reflection,' as Newton called them, are the law of nature, because they are the law of spiril. The mind now thinks, now acts ; end eacli fit produces the other. When the artist has exhausted... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...known to us under the name of polarity—these " fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are...when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness—he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...known to us under the name of polarity—these " fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature, because they are the law of spirit. I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labour to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...to us under the name of Polarity, — these " fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are...when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...to us under the name of Polarity, — these " fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are...when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...to us under the name of polarity — these " fits of easy transmission and re^flection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are...when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...to us under the name of Polarity, — these " fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are...when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — -he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...to us under the name of Polarity, — these " fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are...fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apI iiprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the [^resource to live. Character is... | |
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... of the breath; in desire and satiety; in the ebb and flow of the sea; in day and night; in heat and cold; and as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity, - these "fits of easy transmission... 
