The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page vii
... works at the desire of the publishers , sharing their feeling that to the student of Emerson side - lights on the man , his surroundings , his work , and method might be welcome , gathered from the journals , the PREFACE vii.
... works at the desire of the publishers , sharing their feeling that to the student of Emerson side - lights on the man , his surroundings , his work , and method might be welcome , gathered from the journals , the PREFACE vii.
Page xxvii
... . impressed with the singular conviction that not a form so grotesque , so savage , or so beautiful but is an expression of something in man , the I am observer . We feel that there is an occult relation BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xxvii.
... . impressed with the singular conviction that not a form so grotesque , so savage , or so beautiful but is an expression of something in man , the I am observer . We feel that there is an occult relation BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xxvii.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. observer . We feel that there is an occult relation between the very worm , the crawling scorpion and man . I am moved to strange sympathies . say , I will listen to this invitation . I will be a ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. observer . We feel that there is an occult relation between the very worm , the crawling scorpion and man . I am moved to strange sympathies . say , I will listen to this invitation . I will be a ...
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... feel that nothing can befall me in life , -no disgrace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space , mean egotism ...
... feel that nothing can befall me in life , -no disgrace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space , mean egotism ...
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... feel that we have not yet put it to its use , neither are able . We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs . Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the ...
... feel that we have not yet put it to its use , neither are able . We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs . Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the ...
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