The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 3Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878 |
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... spirits . They seem a power incredible , as if God should raise the dead . The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid , with a kind of fear . It is as much out of his pos- · sibility as the prowess of Coeur - de - SOCIETY ...
... spirits . They seem a power incredible , as if God should raise the dead . The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid , with a kind of fear . It is as much out of his pos- · sibility as the prowess of Coeur - de - SOCIETY ...
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... spirits constitute the power of the present , and their feats are like the structure of a pyramid . Their result is a lord , a general , or a boon companion . Before these , what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge ! But ...
... spirits constitute the power of the present , and their feats are like the structure of a pyramid . Their result is a lord , a general , or a boon companion . Before these , what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge ! But ...
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... Spirit which informs Nature , Plato rightly said , " Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art . " Art , universally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle , " The reason of the thing ...
... Spirit which informs Nature , Plato rightly said , " Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art . " Art , universally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle , " The reason of the thing ...
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... spirit rears a higher delight , but to which these are indispensable . Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is conventional in his art , of which there is much in every work of art . Thus how much is there that is not ...
... spirit rears a higher delight , but to which these are indispensable . Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is conventional in his art , of which there is much in every work of art . Thus how much is there that is not ...
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... spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak , or an angel of the Lord to act ; that is , he is not to speak his own words , or.do his own works , or think his own thoughts , but he is to be an organ through which the universal mind ...
... spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak , or an angel of the Lord to act ; that is , he is not to speak his own words , or.do his own works , or think his own thoughts , but he is to be an organ through which the universal mind ...
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