Nature, Addresses and LecturesРипол Классик, 1983 - 298 pages Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, Addresses and Lectures. |
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... ocean of water beneath, this firmament of earth between? this zodiac of lights, this tent of dropping clouds, this striped coat of climates, this fourfold year ? Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve him. The field is at once.
... ocean of water beneath, this firmament of earth between? this zodiac of lights, this tent of dropping clouds, this striped coat of climates, this fourfold year ? Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve him. The field is at once.
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R.W. Emerson. stones, and corn serve him. The field is at once his floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed. “More servants wait on man Than he '11 take notice of.” Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the ...
R.W. Emerson. stones, and corn serve him. The field is at once his floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed. “More servants wait on man Than he '11 take notice of.” Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the ...
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... once in the steep defile of Thermopylae; when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps, under the shadow ofv the avalanche, gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these. heroes entitled to ...
... once in the steep defile of Thermopylae; when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps, under the shadow ofv the avalanche, gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these. heroes entitled to ...
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... once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend ...
... once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend ...
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... once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God. The moment our discourse rises above the. ground line of familiar facts and is inflamed with passion or exalted by thought, it clothes itself ...
... once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God. The moment our discourse rises above the. ground line of familiar facts and is inflamed with passion or exalted by thought, it clothes itself ...
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