The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... side ; has its translation , through humanity , into the spiritual and neces- sary sphere , where it plays a part as indestructible as any other . And to these , their ends , all things continually ascend . The gases gather to the solid ...
... side ; has its translation , through humanity , into the spiritual and neces- sary sphere , where it plays a part as indestructible as any other . And to these , their ends , all things continually ascend . The gases gather to the solid ...
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... sides from approach . The more we are drawn , the more we are repelled . There is something not solid in the good that is done for us . The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself . It has something unreal for his companion ...
... sides from approach . The more we are drawn , the more we are repelled . There is something not solid in the good that is done for us . The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself . It has something unreal for his companion ...
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... side , whilst he lives , to scatter the seeds of science and of song , that climate , corn , animals , men , may be milder , and the germs of love and benefit may be multiplied . II . PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . PLATO 20 ...
... side , whilst he lives , to scatter the seeds of science and of song , that climate , corn , animals , men , may be milder , and the germs of love and benefit may be multiplied . II . PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . PLATO 20 ...
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... side , the genius of Europe is active and creative : it resists caste by culture ; its phi- losophy was a discipline ; it is a land of arts , inventions , trade , freedom . If the East loved infinity , the West delighted in boundaries ...
... side , the genius of Europe is active and creative : it resists caste by culture ; its phi- losophy was a discipline ; it is a land of arts , inventions , trade , freedom . If the East loved infinity , the West delighted in boundaries ...
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... sides of a thing was born . The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature ; the upper and the under side of the medal of Jove ; the union of impossibilities , which reappears in every object ; its real and its ideal power , was now ...
... sides of a thing was born . The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature ; the upper and the under side of the medal of Jove ; the union of impossibilities , which reappears in every object ; its real and its ideal power , was now ...
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