The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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... reason and faith . There I 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 ...
... reason and faith . There I 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 ...
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... reason can be asked or given . why the soul seeks beauty . Beauty , in its largest and profoundest sense , is one expression for the universe . God is the all - fair . Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the ...
... reason can be asked or given . why the soul seeks beauty . Beauty , in its largest and profoundest sense , is one expression for the universe . God is the all - fair . Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the ...
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... Reason : it is not mine , or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men . And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried , the sky with its eternal calm , and full of everlasting orbs , is the type of Reason ...
... Reason : it is not mine , or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men . And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried , the sky with its eternal calm , and full of everlasting orbs , is the type of Reason ...
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... Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , — its solidity or resistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its divisibility . The understanding adds , divides , combines , measures , and finds ...
... Reason . Every property of matter is a school for the understanding , — its solidity or resistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its divisibility . The understanding adds , divides , combines , measures , and finds ...
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... Reason and reflect the conscience . All things are moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color , and motion ; that every globe in the remotest ...
... Reason and reflect the conscience . All things are moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color , and motion ; that every globe in the remotest ...
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