The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... force . In the moment when he ceases to help us as a cause , he begins to help us more as an effect . Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will . The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause . Yet ...
... force . In the moment when he ceases to help us as a cause , he begins to help us more as an effect . Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will . The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause . Yet ...
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... once established , they are thence- forward good citizens . It is ever thus . The progress is to accuracy , to skill , to truth , from blind force . - : There is a moment , in the history of 26 REPRESENTATIVE MEN . LITERATURE.
... once established , they are thence- forward good citizens . It is ever thus . The progress is to accuracy , to skill , to truth , from blind force . - : There is a moment , in the history of 26 REPRESENTATIVE MEN . LITERATURE.
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... forces of night , con- verses , by his eyes and brain , with solar and stellar creation . That is the moment of adult health , the culmination of power . Such is the history of Europe , in all points ; and such in philosophy . Its early ...
... forces of night , con- verses , by his eyes and brain , with solar and stellar creation . That is the moment of adult health , the culmination of power . Such is the history of Europe , in all points ; and such in philosophy . Its early ...
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... force , he threw him- self into theology . In 1743 , when he was fifty - four years old , what is called his illumination began . All his metallurgy , and transportation of ships overland , was absorbed into this ecstasy . He ceased to ...
... force , he threw him- self into theology . In 1743 , when he was fifty - four years old , what is called his illumination began . All his metallurgy , and transportation of ships overland , was absorbed into this ecstasy . He ceased to ...
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... force , like a musical composer , goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme , now high , now low , in solo , in chorus , ten thousand times reverberated , till it fills earth and heaven with the chant . Gravitation , as ...
... force , like a musical composer , goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme , now high , now low , in solo , in chorus , ten thousand times reverberated , till it fills earth and heaven with the chant . Gravitation , as ...
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