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" Observe, too, the impossibility of antedating this act. In its grub state, it cannot fly, it cannot shine, it is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact,... "
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 112
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 441 pages
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United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 1

1838 - 540 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event in our private history, which shall...whole sky, are gone already; friend and relative; profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing." And again : " The...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event in our private history, which shall...whole sky are gone already ; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. Of course, he who...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event in our private historv, which shall not, sooner or later, lose its adhesive,...the whole sky are gone already; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. Of course, he who...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall...whole sky, are gone already; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. Of course, he who...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall...whole sky, are gone already; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. Of course, he who...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall...whole sky, are gone already ; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. Of course, he who...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event in our private history, which shall...whole sky are gone already ; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. Of course, he who...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall...maids and berries, and many another fact that once tilled the whole sky, are gone already; friend ana relative, profession and party, town and country,...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall...whole sky, are gone already ; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. Of course, he who...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall...whole sky, are gone already ; friend and relative, profession and party, town and country, nation and world, must also soar and sing. Of course, he who...
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