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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... mind is open to their in- fluence . Nature never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the wisest man extort her secret , and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection . Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit . The ...
... mind is open to their in- fluence . Nature never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the wisest man extort her secret , and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection . Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit . The ...
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... mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love in such excess , that ...
... mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love in such excess , that ...
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... mind , and that state ยท of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture . An enraged man is a lion , a cun- ning man is a fox , a firm man is a rock , a learned man is a torch . A lamb is innocence ...
... mind , and that state ยท of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture . An enraged man is a lion , a cun- ning man is a fox , a firm man is a rock , a learned man is a torch . A lamb is innocence ...
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... mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original 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 ...
... mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original 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 ...
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... mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial - plate of the invisible . " The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics ...
... mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial - plate of the invisible . " The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics ...
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