Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... into the eye and the heart of the child . The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly ad- justed to each other ; who has retained the spirit - - of infancy even into the era of manhood 14 NATURE .
... into the eye and the heart of the child . The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly ad- justed to each other ; who has retained the spirit - - of infancy even into the era of manhood 14 NATURE .
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... eyebrow . We say the heart to ex- press emotion , the head to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spiritual nature . Most of the process by which this trans-
... eyebrow . We say the heart to ex- press emotion , the head to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things , and now appropriated to spiritual nature . Most of the process by which this trans-
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... heart , then all its hab- its , even that said to be recently observed , that it never sleeps , become sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is ...
... heart , then all its hab- its , even that said to be recently observed , that it never sleeps , become sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is ...
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... heart of things . Unfortunately every one of them bears the marks as of some injury ; is marred and superficially de- fective . Nevertheless , far different from the deaf and dumb nature around them , these all rest like fountain ...
... heart of things . Unfortunately every one of them bears the marks as of some injury ; is marred and superficially de- fective . Nevertheless , far different from the deaf and dumb nature around them , these all rest like fountain ...
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... heart resists it , because it balks the affections in denying substan- tive being to men and women . Nature is so per- vaded with human life that there is something of humanity in all and in every particular . But this theory makes ...
... heart resists it , because it balks the affections in denying substan- tive being to men and women . Nature is so per- vaded with human life that there is something of humanity in all and in every particular . But this theory makes ...
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| Title | Nature: Addresses, and Lectures Volume 1 of Riverside ed. Complete works |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 22 Oct 2013 |
| Length | 315 pages |
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