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" And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only selfsufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the... "
Half truths and the truth, lects. on the origin and development of ... - Page 215
by Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...act of seeing, and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon,...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. It is only by the vision of that Wisdom, that the horoscope of the ages can be read, and it is only...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...Behold, it saith, I am born into the great, the universal mind. I the imperfect adore my own Perfect. I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby...overlook the sun and the stars, and feel them to be but the fair accidents and effects which change and pass. More and more the surges of everlasting nature...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 76

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon,...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.' — Essay ix., pp. 270, 27 i. ' Existence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole.' —...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 564 pages
...own. Behold, it saith, I am born into the universal mind ; I, the imperfect, adore my own perfect. I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do overlook the sun and stars Thus viewing the soul, .... man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle the...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...own. Behold, it saith, I am born into the universal mind ; I, the imperfect, adore my own perfect. I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do overlook the sun and stars Thus viewing the soul, .... man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle the...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon,...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. Only by the vision of that Wisdom can the horoscope of the ages be read, and by falling back on our...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...act of seeing, and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon,...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. It is only by the vision of that Wisdom, that the horoscope of the ages can be read, and it is only...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. Vfe see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon,...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. It is only by the vision of that Wisdom that the horoscope of the ages can he read, and it is only...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1848 - 596 pages
...in all, at once the object of worship and the worshipper. " I, the imperfect, adore my own perfect. I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby...overlook the sun and the stars, and feel them to be but the fair accidents and effects which change and pass. More and more the surges of everlasting nature...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon,...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. It is only by the vision of that wisdom that the horoscope of the ages can be read, and it is only...
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