Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes , And speaks all languages the rose ; And , striving to be man , the worm Mounts through all the spires of form . INTRODUCTION . OUR age is retrospective . It builds the.
... the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes , And speaks all languages the rose ; And , striving to be man , the worm Mounts through all the spires of form . INTRODUCTION . OUR age is retrospective . It builds the.
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... language , sleep , madness , dreams , beasts , sex . Philosophically considered , the universe is com- posed of Nature and the Soul . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is separate from us , all which Philosophy distinguishes as ...
... language , sleep , madness , dreams , beasts , sex . Philosophically considered , the universe is com- posed of Nature and the Soul . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is separate from us , all which Philosophy distinguishes as ...
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... Language ; and Discipline . Under the general name of commodity , I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to na- ture . This , of course , is a benefit which is tempo- rary and mediate , not ultimate , like its service to the ...
... Language ; and Discipline . Under the general name of commodity , I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to na- ture . This , of course , is a benefit which is tempo- rary and mediate , not ultimate , like its service to the ...
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... eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expres- sion of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use 30 BEAUTY .
... eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expres- sion of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use 30 BEAUTY .
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Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves Nature is the vehicle of thought , and in to man . a simple , double , and three - fold degree . 1. Words are signs of ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves Nature is the vehicle of thought , and in to man . a simple , double , and three - fold degree . 1. Words are signs of ...
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