The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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... action , he never succeeded in expressing but in his museum . " Possibly Owen himself said this to Emerson , as the word progressive does not appear in the Biographie Générale notice . - From books , and from men , alike in the ...
... action , he never succeeded in expressing but in his museum . " Possibly Owen himself said this to Emerson , as the word progressive does not appear in the Biographie Générale notice . - From books , and from men , alike in the ...
Page xl
... action were unpopular to the verge of danger , Unitarian and Transcendental heresies scourged or ridiculed and the cause of human freedom , in the hands of a despised few , seemed almost hopeless , he lived to see these causes ...
... action were unpopular to the verge of danger , Unitarian and Transcendental heresies scourged or ridiculed and the cause of human freedom , in the hands of a despised few , seemed almost hopeless , he lived to see these causes ...
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... action propor- tioned to nature , why should we grope among the dry bones of the past , or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe ? The sun shines to - day also . There is more wool and flax in the fields ...
... action propor- tioned to nature , why should we grope among the dry bones of the past , or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe ? The sun shines to - day also . There is more wool and flax in the fields ...
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... action of its structure and of the laws of light , perspective is produced , which in- tegrates every mass of objects , of what character soever , into a well colored and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and ...
... action of its structure and of the laws of light , perspective is produced , which in- tegrates every mass of objects , of what character soever , into a well colored and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and ...
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... actions in nature is so needful to man , that , in its lowest functions , it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and ...
... actions in nature is so needful to man , that , in its lowest functions , it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and ...
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