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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... cause of the world , will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result . They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes : Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; and Dis- cipline . Under the general name of ...
... cause of the world , will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result . They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes : Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; and Dis- cipline . Under the general name of ...
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... causes the place and the bystanders to shine . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it . Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate . is his , if he will . He may ...
... causes the place and the bystanders to shine . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it . Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate . is his , if he will . He may ...
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... caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach , through the principal streets of the city , on his way to the scaffold . But , " his biographer says , " the multi- tude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his ...
... caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach , through the principal streets of the city , on his way to the scaffold . But , " his biographer says , " the multi- tude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his ...
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... and internal beau- ty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature .. CHAPTER IV . LA LANGUAGE . ANGUAGE is a third BEAUTY . 15.
... and internal beau- ty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature .. CHAPTER IV . LA LANGUAGE . ANGUAGE is a third BEAUTY . 15.
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... Cause through the instruments he has already made . These facts may suggest the advantage which the country life possesses for a powerful mind , over the artificial and cur- tailed life of cities . We know more from nature than we can ...
... Cause through the instruments he has already made . These facts may suggest the advantage which the country life possesses for a powerful mind , over the artificial and cur- tailed life of cities . We know more from nature than we can ...
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