The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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... persons can see na- ture . Most persons do not 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 ...
... persons can see na- ture . Most persons do not 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 ...
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... 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 nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under ...
... 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 nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under ...
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... person to outgo our ideal ; when he has , moreover , become an object of thought , and , whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect , is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom , —it is a sign to us that his ...
... person to outgo our ideal ; when he has , moreover , become an object of thought , and , whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect , is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom , —it is a sign to us that his ...
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... person- ality of God ; Ethics does not . They are one to our present design . They both put nature under foot . The first and last lesson of religion is , " The things that are seen , are temporal ; the things that are unseen , are ...
... person- ality of God ; Ethics does not . They are one to our present design . They both put nature under foot . The first and last lesson of religion is , " The things that are seen , are temporal ; the things that are unseen , are ...
Page 60
... persons and things , of actions and events , of country and religion , not as painfully accumu- lated , atom after atom , act after act , in an aged creeping Past , but as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity for ...
... persons and things , of actions and events , of country and religion , not as painfully accumu- lated , atom after atom , act after act , in an aged creeping Past , but as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity for ...
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