The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... earth , becomes part of his daily food . In the pres- ence of nature , a wild delight runs through the man , in spite of real sorrows . Nature says , - he is my creature , and mau- gre all his impertinent griefs , he shall be glad with ...
... earth , becomes part of his daily food . In the pres- ence of nature , a wild delight runs through the man , in spite of real sorrows . Nature says , - he is my creature , and mau- gre all his impertinent griefs , he shall be glad with ...
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... 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 his floor , his work- yard , his play ...
... 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 his floor , his work- yard , his play ...
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... earth , as a shore , I look out into that silent sea . I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust , and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind . How does Nature deify us with a few and ...
... earth , as a shore , I look out into that silent sea . I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust , and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind . How does Nature deify us with a few and ...
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... earth sympathize with Jesus . And in common life , whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , the persons , the opinions , and the day , and ...
... earth sympathize with Jesus . And in common life , whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , the persons , the opinions , and the day , and ...
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... earth is buried , the sky with its eternal calm , and full of everlasting orbs , is the type of Reason . That which , intellectually considered , we call Reason , considered in relation to nature , we call Spirit . Spirit is the Creator ...
... earth is buried , the sky with its eternal calm , and full of everlasting orbs , is the type of Reason . That which , intellectually considered , we call Reason , considered in relation to nature , we call Spirit . Spirit is the Creator ...
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