The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 7
... 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 anything good in you . Dante was very bad com- pany , and ...
... 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 anything good in you . Dante was very bad com- pany , and ...
Page 8
... seem a nebula of united light , yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve ; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs . The coöperation is involuntary , and is put upon us by the Genius of Life , who ...
... seem a nebula of united light , yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve ; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs . The coöperation is involuntary , and is put upon us by the Genius of Life , who ...
Page 12
... seem a power incredible , as if God should raise the dead . The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid , with a kind of fear . It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur - de - Lion , or an Irishman's day's ...
... seem a power incredible , as if God should raise the dead . The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid , with a kind of fear . It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur - de - Lion , or an Irishman's day's ...
Page 37
... seem to feel , and to labor to ex- press , the identity of their law . They are rays of one sun ; they translate each into a new lan- guage the sense of the other . They are sub- lime when seen as emanations of a Necessity ...
... seem to feel , and to labor to ex- press , the identity of their law . They are rays of one sun ; they translate each into a new lan- guage the sense of the other . They are sub- lime when seen as emanations of a Necessity ...
Page 42
... seems to have no option about his tools , but merely the neces- sity to learn from Nature what will fit best , as if he were fitting a screw or a door . Beneath a necessity thus almighty , what is artificial in man's life seems ...
... seems to have no option about his tools , but merely the neces- sity to learn from Nature what will fit best , as if he were fitting a screw or a door . Beneath a necessity thus almighty , what is artificial in man's life seems ...
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