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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... thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language , sleep , madness , dreams , beasts , sex . Philosophically considered , the universe is composed of Na- ture and the Soul . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is ...
... thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language , sleep , madness , dreams , beasts , sex . Philosophically considered , the universe is composed of Na- ture and the Soul . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is ...
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... thoughts be of equal greatness . Will- ingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and bend her ... thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the ...
... thoughts be of equal greatness . Will- ingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and bend her ... thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the ...
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... thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spirit- ual nature . Most of the process by which this transformation is made is hidden from us in the remote time when language was ...
... thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spirit- ual nature . Most of the process by which this transformation is made is hidden from us in the remote time when language was ...
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... thought with its proper sym- bol , and so to utter it , depends on the simplicity of his charac- ter , that is , upon his love of truth , and his desire to communi- Icate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the ...
... thought with its proper sym- bol , and so to utter it , depends on the simplicity of his charac- ter , that is , upon his love of truth , and his desire to communi- Icate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the ...
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... thought , it clothes itself in images . A man conversing in earnest , if he watch his intellectual pro- cesses , will find that a material image , more or less luminous , arises in his mind , cotemporaneous with every thought , which ...
... thought , it clothes itself in images . A man conversing in earnest , if he watch his intellectual pro- cesses , will find that a material image , more or less luminous , arises in his mind , cotemporaneous with every thought , which ...
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