The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xi
... 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 later all ...
... 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 later all ...
Page xiv
... things of God , before things seen and known . ' " " They were humble and earnest scholars . Mr. Emerson told that , in his childhood , " Dr. Frothingham one day found me in his parlor , and coming close and looking at the form of my ...
... things of God , before things seen and known . ' " " They were humble and earnest scholars . Mr. Emerson told that , in his childhood , " Dr. Frothingham one day found me in his parlor , and coming close and looking at the form of my ...
Page xxvi
... things , Of tendency through endless ages , Of star - dust and star - pilgrimages , The rushing metamorphosis . And in 1836 , in Nature , he told how- Striving to be man , the worm Mounts through countless spires of form . The early ...
... things , Of tendency through endless ages , Of star - dust and star - pilgrimages , The rushing metamorphosis . And in 1836 , in Nature , he told how- Striving to be man , the worm Mounts through countless spires of form . The early ...
Page xxxvi
... things as they were . Emerson used to say , " My strength and my doom is to be solitary " ; but to a retired scholar a wholesome offset to this seclusion was the travelling and lecturing in cities and in raw frontier towns , bringing ...
... things as they were . Emerson used to say , " My strength and my doom is to be solitary " ; but to a retired scholar a wholesome offset to this seclusion was the travelling and lecturing in cities and in raw frontier towns , bringing ...
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... Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable . We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can.
... Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable . We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can.
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