Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonWalter Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page vii
... thought . There is something suggested by it that is a newer testament , -the gospel according to this moment . It is an expression of the health and soundness of Nature , a brag for all the world - healthiness as of a spring burst ...
... thought . There is something suggested by it that is a newer testament , -the gospel according to this moment . It is an expression of the health and soundness of Nature , a brag for all the world - healthiness as of a spring burst ...
Page xxiv
... thought ; " hence is legible to us . Furthermore , this identity of the power in 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 ...
... thought ; " hence is legible to us . Furthermore , this identity of the power in 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 ...
Page xxxi
... thought and speech . Who can forget that exquisite opening to the Divinity Address ? " In this refulgent summer it ... thoughts be of equal scope . Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and bend her lines of ...
... thought and speech . Who can forget that exquisite opening to the Divinity Address ? " In this refulgent summer it ... thoughts be of equal scope . Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and bend her lines of ...
Page xxxii
... thought . No early Aryan , no bowed worshipper of the dawn , or of sun and stars , was ever struck into deeper wonder and more rap- turous adoration in presence of the great spectacle of the universe than these men of to - day in the ...
... thought . No early Aryan , no bowed worshipper of the dawn , or of sun and stars , was ever struck into deeper wonder and more rap- turous adoration in presence of the great spectacle of the universe than these men of to - day in the ...
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... thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways , and worked in society as they . All his thoughts breathed the same generosity . He was an accurate and a deep man . He was a votary of the Greeks , and impatient of ...
... thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways , and worked in society as they . All his thoughts breathed the same generosity . He was an accurate and a deep man . He was a votary of the Greeks , and impatient of ...
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