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" Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am... "
Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures - Page 15
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3; Volume 21

1837 - 424 pages
...thought not only unexplained but inexplicable, as language, sleep, dreams, beasts, sex." — p. 7. " Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...air, — and uplifted into infinite space, — all egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball." — p. 13. " Whilst we use this grand cipher to...
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can...egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am no thing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...years. In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes) which Nature...egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1848 - 596 pages
...swallowing up all relations, parts, and times within itself." — P. 65.* " In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can...Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blythe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball....
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the...
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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can...egotism vanishes. ; I become a transparent eye-ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can...egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing ; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving...egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 15

1850 - 424 pages
...Mr. Emerson defines his own position more exactly in the following precise and philosophical terms. " Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith : there I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, which (leaving me my eyes) nature cannot repair. With the trees I am not alone and unacquainted : they...
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