Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... Heaven ! this picture is not ten years old : " _ -so delicate and skilful was that man's touch . ' I was in his company for about an hour , but find it impossible to recall the largest part of his discourse , which was often like so ...
... Heaven ! this picture is not ten years old : " _ -so delicate and skilful was that man's touch . ' I was in his company for about an hour , but find it impossible to recall the largest part of his discourse , which was often like so ...
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... heaven above and the earth be- neath . It moves through a zodiac of feasts and fasts , names every day of the year , every town and market and headland and monument , and has coupled itself with the almanack , that no court can be held ...
... heaven above and the earth be- neath . It moves through a zodiac of feasts and fasts , names every day of the year , every town and market and headland and monument , and has coupled itself with the almanack , that no court can be held ...
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... heavens journey still and sojourn not , " and arts , wars , discoveries , and opinion , go onward at their own pace . The new age has new desires , new enemies , new trades , new charities , and reads the Scriptures with new eyes . The ...
... heavens journey still and sojourn not , " and arts , wars , discoveries , and opinion , go onward at their own pace . The new age has new desires , new enemies , new trades , new charities , and reads the Scriptures with new eyes . The ...
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... heaven and hell ; Hegel's study of civil history , as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought ; the identity - philosophy of Schelling , couched in the statement that " all difference is quantitative . " So the very ...
... heaven and hell ; Hegel's study of civil history , as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought ; the identity - philosophy of Schelling , couched in the statement that " all difference is quantitative . " So the very ...
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... heaven into new forms . " A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for , and he does not value the salient and curative influence of intellectual action , studious of truth , without a by - end . By the law of contraries ...
... heaven into new forms . " A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for , and he does not value the salient and curative influence of intellectual action , studious of truth , without a by - end . By the law of contraries ...
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write