 | 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... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am no thing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes) which Nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental.... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...me my eyes), which Nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blythe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism...currents of the universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." — P. 196. " The doctrine of the Divine nature being forgotten, a sickness... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball....all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts; that is, the poet. This is the best part of these... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental :... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me* I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental.... | |
 | 1850 - 424 pages
...Mr. Emerson defines his own position more exactly in the following precise and philosophical terms. " Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God." Mr. Emerson would apparently be glad to be considered an eclectic.... | |
 | 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,... | |
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Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all * mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am... 
