The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.]. II, Volume 2Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 |
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Page 15
... carry on the work of the world . But I find him greater , when he can abolish himself , and all heroes , by letting in this element of reason , irrespective of persons ; this sub- tilizer , and irresistible upward force , into our ...
... carry on the work of the world . But I find him greater , when he can abolish himself , and all heroes , by letting in this element of reason , irrespective of persons ; this sub- tilizer , and irresistible upward force , into our ...
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... carry these generalizations a step higher , and name the last tendency of both , we might say , that the end of the one is escape from organization , pure science ; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality , or use of ...
... carry these generalizations a step higher , and name the last tendency of both , we might say , that the end of the one is escape from organization , pure science ; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality , or use of ...
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... carrying up every fact to successive platforms , and so disclosing , in every fact , a germ of expansion . These expansions are in the essence of thought . The natural- ist would never help us to them by any discoveries of the ex- tent ...
... carrying up every fact to successive platforms , and so disclosing , in every fact , a germ of expansion . These expansions are in the essence of thought . The natural- ist would never help us to them by any discoveries of the ex- tent ...
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... carried a gold - headed cane . There is a common portrait of him in antique coat and wig , but the face has a wandering or vacant air . The genius which was to penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle science ; to pass ...
... carried a gold - headed cane . There is a common portrait of him in antique coat and wig , but the face has a wandering or vacant air . The genius which was to penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle science ; to pass ...
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... carrying up the semblance into di- vine forms , — delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg ; and he must be reckoned a leader in that revolution , which , by giv- ing to science an idea , has given to an aimless accumulation of ...
... carrying up the semblance into di- vine forms , — delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg ; and he must be reckoned a leader in that revolution , which , by giv- ing to science an idea , has given to an aimless accumulation of ...
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