Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY .
... . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY .
Page 19
First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem ...
First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem ...
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... whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a prop- erty he has in literature , -in all fable as well as in all ...
... whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a prop- erty he has in literature , -in all fable as well as in all ...
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... whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is ...
... whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is ...
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... whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter , by giving them the like grati- fications another day , -bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the com ...
... whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter , by giving them the like grati- fications another day , -bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the com ...
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