The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 12Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 - 635 pages |
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Page 11
... Farmer's Almanac of mental moods . I con- fine my ambition to true reporting of its play in natural action , though I should get only one new fact in a year . ' I cannot myself use that systematic form which is reckoned essential in ...
... Farmer's Almanac of mental moods . I con- fine my ambition to true reporting of its play in natural action , though I should get only one new fact in a year . ' I cannot myself use that systematic form which is reckoned essential in ...
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... , as architecture , or farming , or natural history , ships , animals , chemistry , — in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth ; but a study in the opposite direction 12 NATURAL HISTORY OF INTELLECT.
... , as architecture , or farming , or natural history , ships , animals , chemistry , — in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth ; but a study in the opposite direction 12 NATURAL HISTORY OF INTELLECT.
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... farmer planting in his field is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour . In like mood an old verse , or certain words , gleam with rare significance . But sensibility does not exhaust ...
... farmer planting in his field is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour . In like mood an old verse , or certain words , gleam with rare significance . But sensibility does not exhaust ...
Page 118
... farmer wished to buy an ox . The seller told him how well he had treated the animal . " But , " said my farmer , " I asked the ox , and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused . " We affect to slight England ...
... farmer wished to buy an ox . The seller told him how well he had treated the animal . " But , " said my farmer , " I asked the ox , and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused . " We affect to slight England ...
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... farmers . The poet does not believe in his poetry . Men are ashamed of their intellect . ' • Instinct is the name for the potential wit , that feeling which each has that what is done by any man or agent is done by the same wit as his ...
... farmers . The poet does not believe in his poetry . Men are ashamed of their intellect . ' • Instinct is the name for the potential wit , that feeling which each has that what is done by any man or agent is done by the same wit as his ...
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Page 256 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 265 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 259 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 254 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 272 - Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Page 254 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 282 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Page 187 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 260 - ... true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth: and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words (by what I can express), like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 262 - ... or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...