Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 14
... objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface ...
... objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface ...
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... object in nature to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . All his faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit ...
... object in nature to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . All his faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. perience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to- morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. perience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to- morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general ...
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... objects it touches and brings within reach of the pupil , is his complacency . But chiefly is this apparent in creeds and churches , which are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the great elemental thought of Duty and ...
... objects it touches and brings within reach of the pupil , is his complacency . But chiefly is this apparent in creeds and churches , which are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the great elemental thought of Duty and ...
Page 91
... object , but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail , and thinks he can cut off that which he would have from that which he would not have ...
... object , but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt ; he sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail , and thinks he can cut off that which he would have from that which he would not have ...
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