The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... cause , he begins to help us more as an effect . Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will . The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause . Yet , within the limits of human education and agency ...
... cause , he begins to help us more as an effect . Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will . The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause . Yet , within the limits of human education and agency ...
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... cause of many effects ; then for the cause of that ; and again the cause , diving still into the profound : self - assured that it shall arrive at an abso- lute and sufficient one , a one that shall be all . " In the midst of the sun is ...
... cause of many effects ; then for the cause of that ; and again the cause , diving still into the profound : self - assured that it shall arrive at an abso- lute and sufficient one , a one that shall be all . " In the midst of the sun is ...
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... causes , feels these , as second causes , to be no theories of the world , but bare inventories and lists . To the study of nature he therefore prefixes the dogma , " Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce ...
... causes , feels these , as second causes , to be no theories of the world , but bare inventories and lists . To the study of nature he therefore prefixes the dogma , " Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce ...
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... cause of wit in others , the rather that his broad good - nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally , which was sure to be paid . The play- ers personated him on the stage ; the potters copied his ugly face on their stone ...
... cause of wit in others , the rather that his broad good - nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally , which was sure to be paid . The play- ers personated him on the stage ; the potters copied his ugly face on their stone ...
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... cause , gives wonderful animation , a sort of personality to the whole writing . This book announces his favorite dogmas . The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates , that the brain is a gland ; and of Leucippus , that the atom may be known ...
... cause , gives wonderful animation , a sort of personality to the whole writing . This book announces his favorite dogmas . The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates , that the brain is a gland ; and of Leucippus , that the atom may be known ...
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