The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xi
... heart of things , and ever higher and yet higher leadings . These are my engage- ments ; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men ? ... Wherever there are men , are the objects of my study and love . Sooner or ...
... heart of things , and ever higher and yet higher leadings . These are my engage- ments ; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men ? ... Wherever there are men , are the objects of my study and love . Sooner or ...
Page xii
... heart on life and death , on love , on wealth and poverty , on the prizes of life and the ways . whereby we come at them ; on the characters of men and the influences , occult and open , which affect their fortunes ; and on those ...
... heart on life and death , on love , on wealth and poverty , on the prizes of life and the ways . whereby we come at them ; on the characters of men and the influences , occult and open , which affect their fortunes ; and on those ...
Page 8
... see the sun . At least they have a very superficial seeing . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man , but shines into the eye and the heart of the child . The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward 8 NATURE.
... see the sun . At least they have a very superficial seeing . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man , but shines into the eye and the heart of the child . The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward 8 NATURE.
Page 25
... , the raising of the eyebrow . We say the heart to express emotion , the head to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are words . borrowed from sensible things , and now appro- priated to spiritual nature . Most of the pro- cess.
... , the raising of the eyebrow . We say the heart to express emotion , the head to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are words . borrowed from sensible things , and now appro- priated to spiritual nature . Most of the pro- cess.
Page 28
... ant's ; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from it to man , and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor , a little body with a mighty heart , then all its habits , even that said to be recently 28 NATURE.
... ant's ; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from it to man , and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor , a little body with a mighty heart , then all its habits , even that said to be recently 28 NATURE.
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