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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... religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of ... religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a ...
... religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of ... religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a ...
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... Religion lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment . Prophet and priest , David , Isaiah , Jesus , have drawn deeply from this source . This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature , as to seem the ...
... Religion lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment . Prophet and priest , David , Isaiah , Jesus , have drawn deeply from this source . This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature , as to seem the ...
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... religion . " Michael Angelo main- tained , that , to an architect , a knowledge of anatomy is essen- tial . In Haydn's oratorios , the notes present to the imagina- tion not only motions , as , of the snake , the stag , and the elephant ...
... religion . " Michael Angelo main- tained , that , to an architect , a knowledge of anatomy is essen- tial . In Haydn's oratorios , the notes present to the imagina- tion not only motions , as , of the snake , the stag , and the elephant ...
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... Religion includes the personality of God ; Ethics does not . They are one to our present design . They both put nature under foot . The first and last lesson of religion is , " The things that are seen , are temporal ; the things that ...
... Religion includes the personality of God ; Ethics does not . They are one to our present design . They both put nature under foot . The first and last lesson of religion is , " The things that are seen , are temporal ; the things that ...
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... religion , all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world . But I own there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition , that all culture tends to imbue us with ...
... religion , all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world . But I own there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition , that all culture tends to imbue us with ...
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