The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... man beholds somewhat as beauti- ful as his own nature . The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister , is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable . I am not alone and unacknowledged . They nod to ...
... man beholds somewhat as beauti- ful as his own nature . The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister , is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable . I am not alone and unacknowledged . They nod to ...
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... man Than he'll take notice of . " Nature , in its ministry to man , is not only the material , but is also the process and the result . All the parts incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man . The wind sows the ...
... man Than he'll take notice of . " Nature , in its ministry to man , is not only the material , but is also the process and the result . All the parts incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man . The wind sows the ...
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... man . double , and threefold degree . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . 2. Particular natural facts are symbols ... man is a lion , a cun- ning man is a fox , a firm man is a rock , a learned man is a torch . A lamb is innocence ; a ...
... man . double , and threefold degree . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . 2. Particular natural facts are symbols ... man is a lion , a cun- ning man is a fox , a firm man is a rock , a learned man is a torch . A lamb is innocence ; a ...
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... Man is conscious of a univer- sal soul within or behind his individual life , wherein , as in a firmament , the ... man's life and the seasons ? And do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy ? The instincts of the ...
... Man is conscious of a univer- sal soul within or behind his individual life , wherein , as in a firmament , the ... man's life and the seasons ? And do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy ? The instincts of the ...
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... man's power to connect his thought with its proper sym- bol , and so to utter it , depends on the simplicity of his charac- ter , that is , upon his love of truth , and his desire to communi- Icate it without loss . The corruption of man ...
... man's power to connect his thought with its proper sym- bol , and so to utter it , depends on the simplicity of his charac- ter , that is , upon his love of truth , and his desire to communi- Icate it without loss . The corruption of man ...
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