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 19
... feeling , that break out there , cannot be impounded by any fence of personality . This is the key to the power of the greatest men , their spirit diffuses itself . A new quality of mind travels by night and by day , in con- ― centric ...
... feeling , that break out there , cannot be impounded by any fence of personality . This is the key to the power of the greatest men , their spirit diffuses itself . A new quality of mind travels by night and by day , in con- ― centric ...
Page 31
... 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 and compose ...
... 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 and compose ...
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... every atom , every relation or quality you knew before , you shall know again , and find here , but now ordered ; not nature , but art . And you - shall feel that Alexander indeed overran , with men and PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . 41.
... every atom , every relation or quality you knew before , you shall know again , and find here , but now ordered ; not nature , but art . And you - shall feel that Alexander indeed overran , with men and PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . 41.
Page 42
... feel that Alexander indeed overran , with men and horses , some countries of the planet ; but countries , and things of which countries are made , elements , planet itself , laws of planet and of men , have passed through this man as ...
... feel that Alexander indeed overran , with men and horses , some countries of the planet ; but countries , and things of which countries are made , elements , planet itself , laws of planet and of men , have passed through this man as ...
Page 43
... feeling of complacency and hope . The human being has the saurian and the plant in his rear . His arts and sciences , the easy issue of his brain , look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox , crocodile , and ...
... feeling of complacency and hope . The human being has the saurian and the plant in his rear . His arts and sciences , the easy issue of his brain , look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox , crocodile , and ...
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