The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 15
... light is the first of painters . There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful . And the stimulus it affords to the sense , and a sort of infinitude which it hath , like space and time , make all matter gay ...
... light is the first of painters . There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful . And the stimulus it affords to the sense , and a sort of infinitude which it hath , like space and time , make all matter gay ...
Page 44
... light which traverses it with more subtile currents ; the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space . Each creature is only a modi- fication of the other ; the likeness in them is more than the difference , and their ...
... light which traverses it with more subtile currents ; the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space . Each creature is only a modi- fication of the other ; the likeness in them is more than the difference , and their ...
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... light of the under- standing . Is not prayer also a study of truth , -a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite ? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something . But when a faithful thinker , reso- lute to detach every ...
... light of the under- standing . Is not prayer also a study of truth , -a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite ? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something . But when a faithful thinker , reso- lute to detach every ...
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