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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... forces , give us sincerest lessons , day by day , whose meaning is unlimited . They educate both the Understanding and the Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or resistance , its inertia ...
... forces , give us sincerest lessons , day by day , whose meaning is unlimited . They educate both the Understanding and the Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or resistance , its inertia ...
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... forces . Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed , is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided , a care pretermitted in no single case . What tedious training , day after day , year after year , never ending ...
... forces . Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed , is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided , a care pretermitted in no single case . What tedious training , day after day , year after year , never ending ...
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... , bereft of reason , and eating grass like an ox . But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? ' A man is a god in ruins . When men are innocent , life shall be longer , and shall pass into the immortal 38 PROSPECTS .
... , bereft of reason , and eating grass like an ox . But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? ' A man is a god in ruins . When men are innocent , life shall be longer , and shall pass into the immortal 38 PROSPECTS .
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... force . He works on the world with his understanding alone . He lives in it , and masters it by a penny - wisdom ; and he that works most in it , is but a half - man , and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good , his mind is ...
... force . He works on the world with his understanding alone . He lives in it , and masters it by a penny - wisdom ; and he that works most in it , is but a half - man , and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good , his mind is ...
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... force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen , in saying , that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge , vespertina cognitio , but that of God is a morning knowledge , matutina cognitio . The problem of restoring to the world ...
... force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen , in saying , that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge , vespertina cognitio , but that of God is a morning knowledge , matutina cognitio . The problem of restoring to the world ...
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