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" The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought. "
Essays: Second Series - Page 24
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 274 pages
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is...
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The Truth about Love: A Proposed Sexual Morality Based Upon the Doctrine of ...

1872 - 278 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene to the obscene, becomes...illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought," I can not call to mind a juster train Sexual Wit Defended. Better Fun than Fury in Love. of thought...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What "Animal Kingdom," he broaches the subject, in a remarkable...note : — ' ' In our doctrine of Representations circumeision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. Small and mean things...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 318 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 386 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes...poetry to raise the low and offensive. Small and mean things_serve_as well as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent...
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The Fight of a Book for the World: A Companion Volume to Leaves of Grass

William Sloane Kennedy - 1926 - 328 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes...illustrious spoken in a new connection of thought." "Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind," says Emerson. 1904 Feb....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is...
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Emerson and Self-reliance

George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...and affirming" (p. 452). His whole work teaches that "Thought makes every thing fit for use ... What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes...illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought" (p. 454). What is it that can dispose a person to receptivity and response? I believe that the most...
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The New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings ...

Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is...
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The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in connection to thought. [E, 229] Barbara Packer notes that Emerson took great pleasure in believing...
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