The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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... Standing on the bare ground , my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space , mean egotism vanishes . I become a transparent eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through ...
... Standing on the bare ground , my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space , mean egotism vanishes . I become a transparent eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through ...
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... stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active pow- ers seem to succeed each other , and the exclu- sive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is ...
... stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active pow- ers seem to succeed each other , and the exclu- sive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is ...
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... , and is not alone a solid and sat- isfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.3 IV LANGUAGE ANGUAGE is a third use which Nature LA 24 NATURE.
... , and is not alone a solid and sat- isfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.3 IV LANGUAGE ANGUAGE is a third use which Nature LA 24 NATURE.
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... stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is em- ployed , when there is no bullion in the vaults , In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections . Hundreds of ...
... stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is em- ployed , when there is no bullion in the vaults , In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections . Hundreds of ...
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... stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves . Have moun- tains , and waves , and skies , no significance but what we consciously give them when we ...
... stands ready to clothe what we would say , we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves . Have moun- tains , and waves , and skies , no significance but what we consciously give them when we ...
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