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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Page 25
... church , ” said Coleridge , " is a petrified religion . " Michael Angelo main- tained , that , to an architect , a knowledge of anatomy is essen- tial . In Haydn's oratorios , the notes present to the imagina- tion not only motions , as ...
... church , ” said Coleridge , " is a petrified religion . " Michael Angelo main- tained , that , to an architect , a knowledge of anatomy is essen- tial . In Haydn's oratorios , the notes present to the imagina- tion not only motions , as ...
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... churches of the most ignorant sects , may is , " Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world ; they are vanities , dreams , shadows , unrealities ; seek the realities of religion . " The devotee flouts nature . Some theosophists have ...
... churches of the most ignorant sects , may is , " Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world ; they are vanities , dreams , shadows , unrealities ; seek the realities of religion . " The devotee flouts nature . Some theosophists have ...
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... church and state . One of these signs is the fact , that the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state assumed in literature a very marked and as benign an aspect . Instead of the ...
... church and state . One of these signs is the fact , that the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state assumed in literature a very marked and as benign an aspect . Instead of the ...
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... church , the state , art , letters , life . The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten , a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution . Once man was all ; now he is an appendage , a nuisance . And because the indwelling Supreme ...
... church , the state , art , letters , life . The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten , a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution . Once man was all ; now he is an appendage , a nuisance . And because the indwelling Supreme ...
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... churches are not built on his principles , but on his tropes . Christianity became a My- thus , as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt , before . He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life was a miracle , and all that man ...
... churches are not built on his principles , but on his tropes . Christianity became a My- thus , as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt , before . He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life was a miracle , and all that man ...
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