Essays, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1868 - 274 pages |
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Page 18
... cord , if you hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus " are expressed through images . " Things admit of being used as symbols , because nature is a 18 ESSAY I.
... cord , if you hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus " are expressed through images . " Things admit of being used as symbols , because nature is a 18 ESSAY I.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. of being used as symbols , because nature is a sym- bol , in the whole , and in every part . Every line we can draw in the sand , has expression ; and there is no body without its spirit or genius . All form is an ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. of being used as symbols , because nature is a sym- bol , in the whole , and in every part . Every line we can draw in the sand , has expression ; and there is no body without its spirit or genius . All form is an ...
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... symbol . Who loves nature ? Who does not ? Is it only poets , and men of leisure and cultivation , who live with her ? No ; but also hunters , farmers , grooms , and butchers , though they express their af- fection in their choice of ...
... symbol . Who loves nature ? Who does not ? Is it only poets , and men of leisure and cultivation , who live with her ? No ; but also hunters , farmers , grooms , and butchers , though they express their af- fection in their choice of ...
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... symbol , nature certifying the supernatural , body overflowed by life , which he worships , with coarse but sincere ... symbols , than the populace with theirs . In our political parties , com- pute the power of badges and emblems . See ...
... symbol , nature certifying the supernatural , body overflowed by life , which he worships , with coarse but sincere ... symbols , than the populace with theirs . In our political parties , com- pute the power of badges and emblems . See ...
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... symbol . Thought makes every thing fit for use . vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images ... symbols . The meaner the type by which a law is expressed , the more pungent it is , and the more lasting in the memories ...
... symbol . Thought makes every thing fit for use . vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images ... symbols . The meaner the type by which a law is expressed , the more pungent it is , and the more lasting in the memories ...
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