 In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There...  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1837 - 424 pages
...thought not only unexplained but inexplicable, as language, sleep, dreams, beasts, sex." — p. 7. " Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...air, — and uplifted into infinite space, — all egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball." — p. 13. " Whilst we use this grand cipher to... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts, and times within itself." — P. 65.* " In the woods we return to reason and faith. There...Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blythe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...God a decorum and sanctity reisjn ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes) which Nature cannot repair. Standing... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods,...to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, which (leaving me my eyes) nature cannot repair. With the trees I am not alone and unacquainted : they... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 640 pages
...character until seen with the shore or the ship." Man is at once the worshipper and the object of worship. "Standing on the bare" ground, my head bathed by the...uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. — The \ currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." Prayer,... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 368 pages
...the passage on the landscape. Miss Mumby thought it silly enough, in a printed book, to say, — " Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — I become a transparent eyeball." Celia Downs declared there was a fine suggestion in the language.... | |
 | Rev. Pearson (Thomas), Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 630 pages
...ship." Man is at once the worshipper and the object of worship. " Standing on the bare ground, rtiy head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. — The currenl^ of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." Prayer,... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...Jesus." With Emerson the "soul knows no persons." Man, with him, is the worship and the worshipper. " Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vaniehes. The currents of the universal being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God."... | |
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