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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... tion through everything , fluid and solid , material and element- al . The earth rolls ; every clod and stone comes to the me- ridian : so every organ , function , acid , crystal , grain of dust , has its relation to the brain . It ...
... tion through everything , fluid and solid , material and element- al . The earth rolls ; every clod and stone comes to the me- ridian : so every organ , function , acid , crystal , grain of dust , has its relation to the brain . It ...
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... of mathematical combination , great power of abstraction , the transmutings of the imagina- tion , even versatility , and concentration , as these acts expose ? the invisible organs and members of the mind , which USES OF GREAT MEN . 11.
... of mathematical combination , great power of abstraction , the transmutings of the imagina- tion , even versatility , and concentration , as these acts expose ? the invisible organs and members of the mind , which USES OF GREAT MEN . 11.
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... tion . When this wakes , a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a ...
... tion . When this wakes , a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a ...
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... tion of rich and poor . We live in a market , where is only so much wheat , or wool , or land ; and if I have so much more , every other must have so much less . I seem to have no good , without breach of good manners . Nobody is glad ...
... tion of rich and poor . We live in a market , where is only so much wheat , or wool , or land ; and if I have so much more , every other must have so much less . I seem to have no good , without breach of good manners . Nobody is glad ...
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... tion , some figure goes by , which Thersites too can love and admire . This is he that should marshal us the way we were going . There is no end to his aid . Without Plato , we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a ...
... tion , some figure goes by , which Thersites too can love and admire . This is he that should marshal us the way we were going . There is no end to his aid . Without Plato , we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a ...
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