The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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... universe , the secure compensations , the dignity of man , were what he taught , and , though the older members of the congregation may have been disquieted that he did not dwell upon revealed religion or the offices of the Christ , his ...
... universe , the secure compensations , the dignity of man , were what he taught , and , though the older members of the congregation may have been disquieted that he did not dwell upon revealed religion or the offices of the Christ , his ...
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... has watered my pillow . . . . It has inspired me with hope . It cannot be defeated by my defeats . ... It is the ' open secret ' of the Universe . . . . I believe in this life . I believe it continues BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xxiii.
... has watered my pillow . . . . It has inspired me with hope . It cannot be defeated by my defeats . ... It is the ' open secret ' of the Universe . . . . I believe in this life . I believe it continues BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xxiii.
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... 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 consid- ered here ...
... 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 consid- ered here ...
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... Universe , seeing everywhere , in Protean forms , the inseparable Trinity of Truth , Goodness and Beauty . Mr. Emerson tells us that as a boy he pleased himself as he lay on his bed with the beauty of the Lord's equilibrium in the Uni ...
... Universe , seeing everywhere , in Protean forms , the inseparable Trinity of Truth , Goodness and Beauty . Mr. Emerson tells us that as a boy he pleased himself as he lay on his bed with the beauty of the Lord's equilibrium in the Uni ...
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... universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and ...
... universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and ...
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