The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.]. I, Volume 1Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 |
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... body , must be ranked under this name , NATURE . In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum , I shall use the word in both senses , in its common and in its philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present ...
... body , must be ranked under this name , NATURE . In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum , I shall use the word in both senses , in its common and in its philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present ...
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... bodies , the perpetual presence of the sublime . Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the ...
... bodies , the perpetual presence of the sublime . Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the ...
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... body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , na- ture is medicinal and restores their tone . The tradesman , the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street , and sees the sky and the woods , and is a man ...
... body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , na- ture is medicinal and restores their tone . The tradesman , the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street , and sees the sky and the woods , and is a man ...
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... body ; it is raised a spiritual body . " The motion of the earth round its axis , and round the sun , makes the day , and the year . tain amounts of brute light and heat . But is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the ...
... body ; it is raised a spiritual body . " The motion of the earth round its axis , and round the sun , makes the day , and the year . tain amounts of brute light and heat . But is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the ...
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... body with a mighty heart , then all its habits , even that said to be recently observed , that it never sleeps , become sub- lime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have ...
... body with a mighty heart , then all its habits , even that said to be recently observed , that it never sleeps , become sub- lime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have ...
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