The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... essay , as it af- fects the purely spiritual part of a work of art . As , in useful art , so far as it is useful , the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature , so as to become a sort of continua- tion and in no wise a ...
... essay , as it af- fects the purely spiritual part of a work of art . As , in useful art , so far as it is useful , the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature , so as to become a sort of continua- tion and in no wise a ...
Page 200
... essays On the Dæmon of Socrates , On Isis and Osiris , On Progress in Virtue , On Gar- rulity , On Love ; and thank anew the art of printing and the cheerful domain of ancient thinking . Plutarch charms by the facility of his ...
... essays On the Dæmon of Socrates , On Isis and Osiris , On Progress in Virtue , On Gar- rulity , On Love ; and thank anew the art of printing and the cheerful domain of ancient thinking . Plutarch charms by the facility of his ...
Page 207
... Essays , the Novum . Organum , the History of Henry VII . , and then all the Letters ( especially those to the Earl of Devonshire , explaining the Essex busi- ness ) , and all but his Apophthegms.3 The task is aided by the strong mutual ...
... Essays , the Novum . Organum , the History of Henry VII . , and then all the Letters ( especially those to the Earl of Devonshire , explaining the Essex busi- ness ) , and all but his Apophthegms.3 The task is aided by the strong mutual ...
Page 208
... Essays ; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Memoirs ; Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz ; Rousseau's Confessions ; Linnæus's Diary ; Gibbon's , Hume's , Frank- lin's , Burns's , Alfieri's , Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies . Another class of ...
... Essays ; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Memoirs ; Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz ; Rousseau's Confessions ; Linnæus's Diary ; Gibbon's , Hume's , Frank- lin's , Burns's , Alfieri's , Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies . Another class of ...
Page 315
... essay , charming by its uniform rhetorical merit ; heroic with Stoical precepts , with a Roman eye to the claims of the State ; happiest perhaps in his praise of life on the farm ; and rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain . But he ...
... essay , charming by its uniform rhetorical merit ; heroic with Stoical precepts , with a Roman eye to the claims of the State ; happiest perhaps in his praise of life on the farm ; and rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain . But he ...
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