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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... senses , arts of healing , magi- cal power , and prophecy . The boy believes there is a teacher who can sell him wisdom . Churches believe in imputed merit . But , in strictness , we are not much cognizant of direct serving . Man is ...
... senses , arts of healing , magi- cal power , and prophecy . The boy believes there is a teacher who can sell him wisdom . Churches believe in imputed merit . But , in strictness , we are not much cognizant of direct serving . Man is ...
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... sense , proceed to truth and to being . " Foremost among these activities , are the sum- mersaults , spells , and resurrections wrought by the imagina- tion . When this wakes , a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his ...
... sense , proceed to truth and to being . " Foremost among these activities , are the sum- mersaults , spells , and resurrections wrought by the imagina- tion . When this wakes , a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his ...
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... sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world . For a time , our teachers serve us personally , as metres or milestones of progress . Once they were angels of knowledge , and their ...
... sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world . For a time , our teachers serve us personally , as metres or milestones of progress . Once they were angels of knowledge , and their ...
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... senses , to the many . A too rapid unification , and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars , are the twin dangers of speculation . To this partiality the history of nations corresponded . The country of unity , of immovable ...
... senses , to the many . A too rapid unification , and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars , are the twin dangers of speculation . To this partiality the history of nations corresponded . The country of unity , of immovable ...
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... sense is his warrant and qualification to be the world's interpreter . He has reason , as all the philosophic and poetic class have : but he has , also , what they have not , this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the ...
... sense is his warrant and qualification to be the world's interpreter . He has reason , as all the philosophic and poetic class have : but he has , also , what they have not , this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the ...
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