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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... Reason : it is not mine or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men . And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried , the sky with its eternal calm , and full of everlasting orbs , is the type of Reason ...
... Reason : it is not mine or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men . And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried , the sky with its eternal calm , and full of everlasting orbs , is the type of Reason ...
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... Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or resistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its divisibility . The under- standing adds , divides , combines , measures , and finds nutri ...
... Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or resistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its divisibility . The under- standing adds , divides , combines , measures , and finds nutri ...
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... Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought , by perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind . - 1. Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellec- tual truths . Our dealing with sensible objects is ...
... Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought , by perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind . - 1. Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellec- tual truths . Our dealing with sensible objects is ...
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... conform to the premonitions of Reason and reflect the conscience . All things are moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual na- ture . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color DISCIPLINE . 23.
... conform to the premonitions of Reason and reflect the conscience . All things are moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual na- ture . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color DISCIPLINE . 23.
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... Reason opens , to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression . These proceed from imagination and affection , and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects . If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision ...
... Reason opens , to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression . These proceed from imagination and affection , and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects . If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision ...
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