The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in ...
... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in ...
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... Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry cata- logues of facts ; but the most trivial of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in ...
... Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry cata- logues of facts ; but the most trivial of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in ...
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... as emblems of our thoughts ? ' The world is emblematic . Parts of speech are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature an- swer to those of matter as face to face in 32 NATURE.
... as emblems of our thoughts ? ' The world is emblematic . Parts of speech are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature an- swer to those of matter as face to face in 32 NATURE.
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... whole is greater than its part ; " " reaction is equal to action ; " " the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest , the difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like pro- positions , which have an ...
... whole is greater than its part ; " " reaction is equal to action ; " " the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest , the difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like pro- positions , which have an ...
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... whole character and fortune of the indi- vidual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
... whole character and fortune of the indi- vidual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
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