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2 WHOEVER considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result . They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes : Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; and Discipline .
2 WHOEVER considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result . They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes : Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; and Discipline .
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... is that which is found in combination with the human will . Beauty is the mark Gad sets upon virtue . Every natural action is gracete Every heroic act is also decent , and causes place and the bystanders to shine .
... is that which is found in combination with the human will . Beauty is the mark Gad sets upon virtue . Every natural action is gracete Every heroic act is also decent , and causes place and the bystanders to shine .
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Charles II . , to intimidate the citizens of London , caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city on his way to the scaffold . “ But , ” his biographer says , “ the multitude ...
Charles II . , to intimidate the citizens of London , caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city on his way to the scaffold . “ But , ” his biographer says , “ the multitude ...
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It is the herald of inward and 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 expression of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE .
It is the herald of inward and 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 expression of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE .
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This imagery is spontaneous . It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made .
This imagery is spontaneous . It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made .
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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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