Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is something unfriendly in each to the other , but they are like ...
... affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is something unfriendly in each to the other , but they are like ...
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... affections . Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance ; and heat for love . Visi- ble distance behind and before us , is respectively our image of memory and hope . Who looks upon a river in a ...
... affections . Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance ; and heat for love . Visi- ble distance behind and before us , is respectively our image of memory and hope . Who looks upon a river in a ...
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... are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stim- ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of LANGUAGE . 35.
... are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stim- ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of LANGUAGE . 35.
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Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of writers may be found in every long - civilized nation who for a short time believe and make others believe that they see and utter ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. ulate the understanding or the affections . Hun- dreds of writers may be found in every long - civilized nation who for a short time believe and make others believe that they see and utter ...
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... affections in the world of spirit . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisi- ble world . " Material objects , " said a French philosopher , " are necessarily ...
... affections in the world of spirit . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit . The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisi- ble world . " Material objects , " said a French philosopher , " are necessarily ...
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