Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... Nature could make it . The pre - eminent qualities of these Puritan progenitors , their good sense , sturdy conscience , and courage were con- joined in him with a grace , refinement , and quick insight which he probably derived from ...
... Nature could make it . The pre - eminent qualities of these Puritan progenitors , their good sense , sturdy conscience , and courage were con- joined in him with a grace , refinement , and quick insight which he probably derived from ...
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... nature and humanity - nature , with her infinitely varied charm and majesty ; man , with his wondrous faculties , heroic impulses , and splendid creative- ness - awakens in him feelings which are altogether satisfying . This is the ...
... nature and humanity - nature , with her infinitely varied charm and majesty ; man , with his wondrous faculties , heroic impulses , and splendid creative- ness - awakens in him feelings which are altogether satisfying . This is the ...
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... Nature is a living symbol , " a vast trope , " through which , as through man , this Universal Mind is striving for ... Nature and History . Both Nature and Man are comprehensible to the individual because the same Mind speaks to him ...
... Nature is a living symbol , " a vast trope , " through which , as through man , this Universal Mind is striving for ... Nature and History . Both Nature and Man are comprehensible to the individual because the same Mind speaks to him ...
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... Nature and in ourselves points the conclusion that Nature is moral : " All things preach to us . " It is Emerson's intimate sense of this spiritual presence in Nature that makes of him the pagan that he often is , and impels him to ...
... Nature and in ourselves points the conclusion that Nature is moral : " All things preach to us . " It is Emerson's intimate sense of this spiritual presence in Nature that makes of him the pagan that he often is , and impels him to ...
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... Nature which embosoms us all , and which sleeps no moment on an old past . " 66 " ' All particular reforms are the removing of some impediment " —that is , some impediment to the free activity of the spirit , and the realisation of the ...
... Nature which embosoms us all , and which sleeps no moment on an old past . " 66 " ' All particular reforms are the removing of some impediment " —that is , some impediment to the free activity of the spirit , and the realisation of the ...
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