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 15
... exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I call an ultimate end . No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty . Beauty , in its largest and profoundest sense , is one expression for the uni- verse ...
... exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I call an ultimate end . No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty . Beauty , in its largest and profoundest sense , is one expression for the uni- verse ...
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... manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird , acid and alkali , pre - exist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God , and are what 66 are they are by virtue of preceding affections , 20 LANGUAGE .
... manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird , acid and alkali , pre - exist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God , and are what 66 are they are by virtue of preceding affections , 20 LANGUAGE .
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... exist in things whose analogy is ob- vious , as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness . Thus architecture is called " frozen ...
... exist in things whose analogy is ob- vious , as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness . Thus architecture is called " frozen ...
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... exists . It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World , that God will teach a human mind , and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensa- tions , which we call sun and moon , man and woman ...
... exists . It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World , that God will teach a human mind , and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensa- tions , which we call sun and moon , man and woman ...
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... exists conditionally , to find a ground unconditioned and abso- lute . " It proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phe- nomena , which being known , the phenomena can be predicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea ...
... exists conditionally , to find a ground unconditioned and abso- lute . " It proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phe- nomena , which being known , the phenomena can be predicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea ...
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