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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... relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life ...
... relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life ...
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... relation between man and the vegetable . I am not alone and unacknowledged . They nod to me , and I to them . The waving of the boughs in the storm , is new to me and old . It takes me by surprise , and yet is not unknown . Its effect ...
... relation between man and the vegetable . I am not alone and unacknowledged . They nod to me , and I to them . The waving of the boughs in the storm , is new to me and old . It takes me by surprise , and yet is not unknown . Its effect ...
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... relation of things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the ac- tive powers ...
... relation of things to virtue , they have a relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the ac- tive powers ...
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... relation to actions , as we have seen , comes unsought , and comes because it is unsought , remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect ; and then again , in its turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good ...
... relation to actions , as we have seen , comes unsought , and comes because it is unsought , remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect ; and then again , in its turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good ...
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... relation to nature , we call Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and ... relations in all ob- jects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of rela- tion passes from every other ...
... relation to nature , we call Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and ... relations in all ob- jects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of rela- tion passes from every other ...
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