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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... spirit . The flowers , the animals , the mountains , re- flected the wisdom of his best hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . " When we speak of nature in this manner , we have a dis- tinct but most ...
... spirit . The flowers , the animals , the mountains , re- flected the wisdom of his best hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . " When we speak of nature in this manner , we have a dis- tinct but most ...
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... spirit- ual facts . 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history : the use of the outer creation , to give us language for the beings and ...
... spirit- ual facts . 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history : the use of the outer creation , to give us language for the beings and ...
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... Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language , as the FATHER . Whole It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies , but ...
... Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language , as the FATHER . Whole It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies , but ...
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... spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird , acid and alkali , pre - exist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God , and are what 66 are they are by virtue of preceding affections ...
... spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird , acid and alkali , pre - exist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God , and are what 66 are they are by virtue of preceding affections ...
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... spirit . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world . " Material objects , " said a French philosopher , necessarily kinds of scorice of the substantial ...
... spirit . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world . " Material objects , " said a French philosopher , necessarily kinds of scorice of the substantial ...
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