The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 7
... human race , or else a reli- gion of love . Now he hardly seems entitled to marry ; for how can he protect a woman , who cannot protect himself ? We pray to be conventional . But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be , if there is ...
... human race , or else a reli- gion of love . Now he hardly seems entitled to marry ; for how can he protect a woman , who cannot protect himself ? We pray to be conventional . But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be , if there is ...
Page 37
... human mind on the other side tends , by an equal necessity , to the publication and embodi- ment of its thought , modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our ex- perience injure the individuality through which it ...
... human mind on the other side tends , by an equal necessity , to the publication and embodi- ment of its thought , modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our ex- perience injure the individuality through which it ...
Page 40
... human acts are satellites to her orb . Nature is the representative of the uni- versal mind , and the law becomes this , that Art must be a complement to Nature , strictly subsidiary . It was said , in allusion to the great structures ...
... human acts are satellites to her orb . Nature is the representative of the uni- versal mind , and the law becomes this , that Art must be a complement to Nature , strictly subsidiary . It was said , in allusion to the great structures ...
Page 45
... human form on canvas , or in wax- work ; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape , in which imitation is all that is attempted , these things give to unpractised eyes , to the uncultured , who do not ask a fine spiritual delight ...
... human form on canvas , or in wax- work ; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape , in which imitation is all that is attempted , these things give to unpractised eyes , to the uncultured , who do not ask a fine spiritual delight ...
Page 47
... human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him . Even Shakspeare , of whom we can believe everything , we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony . Especially have we this ...
... human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him . Even Shakspeare , of whom we can believe everything , we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony . Especially have we this ...
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