The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xvii
... me less probable ? " Four of the Emerson boys went through college , and each had by teaching to help the others ; the younger ones , when their turn to work came , in some measure freeing the elder brothers BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xvii.
... me less probable ? " Four of the Emerson boys went through college , and each had by teaching to help the others ; the younger ones , when their turn to work came , in some measure freeing the elder brothers BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xvii.
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... turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good is eternally reproductive . The beauty of nature re - forms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed ...
... turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good is eternally reproductive . The beauty of nature re - forms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed ...
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... turn the street into a puppet- show . The men , the women , - talking , run- ning , bartering , fighting , -the earnest mechanic , the lounger , the beggar , the boys , the dogs , are unrealized at once , or , at least , wholly detached ...
... turn the street into a puppet- show . The men , the women , - talking , run- ning , bartering , fighting , -the earnest mechanic , the lounger , the beggar , the boys , the dogs , are unrealized at once , or , at least , wholly detached ...
Page 51
... Turn the eyes upside down , by looking at the landscape through your legs , and how agreeable is the picture , though you have seen it any time these twenty years ! In these cases , by mechanical means , is sug- gested the difference ...
... Turn the eyes upside down , by looking at the landscape through your legs , and how agreeable is the picture , though you have seen it any time these twenty years ! In these cases , by mechanical means , is sug- gested the difference ...
Page 70
... but the epoch of one degradation . ' We distrust and deny inwardly our sym- pathy with nature . We own and disown our relation to it , by turns . We are like Nebuchad- nezzar , dethroned , bereft of reason , and eating 70 NATURE.
... but the epoch of one degradation . ' We distrust and deny inwardly our sym- pathy with nature . We own and disown our relation to it , by turns . We are like Nebuchad- nezzar , dethroned , bereft of reason , and eating 70 NATURE.
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