The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 52
... things ; the poet conforms things to his thoughts . The one esteems nature as rooted and fast ; the other , as fluid , and impresses his being thereon . To him , the refractory world is ductile and flexible ; he invests dust and stones ...
... things ; the poet conforms things to his thoughts . The one esteems nature as rooted and fast ; the other , as fluid , and impresses his being thereon . To him , the refractory world is ductile and flexible ; he invests dust and stones ...
Page 85
... thing is individual , stands by itself . By and by , it finds how to join two things and see in them one na- ture ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct , it goes on tying things ...
... thing is individual , stands by itself . By and by , it finds how to join two things and see in them one na- ture ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct , it goes on tying things ...
Page 124
... things proceed out of this same spirit , which is differently named love , jus- tice , temperance , in its different applications , just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes . All things pro- ceed ...
... things proceed out of this same spirit , which is differently named love , jus- tice , temperance , in its different applications , just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes . All things pro- ceed ...
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