The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xxv
... tion . His first book , Nature , which he was meditating while in Europe , was finished here , and published in 1836. When , as a boy , he went with William to the Maine woods , he wrote to his Aunt Mary that he found enjoyment there ...
... tion . His first book , Nature , which he was meditating while in Europe , was finished here , and published in 1836. When , as a boy , he went with William to the Maine woods , he wrote to his Aunt Mary that he found enjoyment there ...
Page xxvi
... tion as the plan of the Universe in his first book , and everywhere in his prose and verse , has often attracted notice , first , I think , of Mr. Moncure D. Conway in his Emerson at Home and Abroad . A question so interesting should be ...
... tion as the plan of the Universe in his first book , and everywhere in his prose and verse , has often attracted notice , first , I think , of Mr. Moncure D. Conway in his Emerson at Home and Abroad . A question so interesting should be ...
Page xxix
... tion , " made up from lectures , some of which were given early , Mr. Emerson credits John Hunter with " the electric word arrested and progressive development , indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest ...
... tion , " made up from lectures , some of which were given early , Mr. Emerson credits John Hunter with " the electric word arrested and progressive development , indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest ...
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... the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds , and leave no wrinkle or stain ? 2 how much industry and providence and affec- tion we have caught from the pantomime of brutes ? What a searching preacher of self - com- 42 NATURE.
... the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds , and leave no wrinkle or stain ? 2 how much industry and providence and affec- tion we have caught from the pantomime of brutes ? What a searching preacher of self - com- 42 NATURE.
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... tion . We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative , and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet . Thus in his sonnets , the lays of birds , the scents and dyes of flowers he finds to be the ...
... tion . We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative , and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet . Thus in his sonnets , the lays of birds , the scents and dyes of flowers he finds to be the ...
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