Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 67
... leaves God out of me . It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions , to wander without end . Then the heart resists it , because it balks the affections in denying substan- tive being to men and women . Nature is so per ...
... leaves God out of me . It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions , to wander without end . Then the heart resists it , because it balks the affections in denying substan- tive being to men and women . Nature is so per ...
Page 68
... leaves through the pores of the old . As a plant upon the earth , so a man rests upon the bosom of God ; he is nourished by unfail- ing fountains , and draws at his need inexhaustible power . Who can set bounds to the possibilities of ...
... leaves through the pores of the old . As a plant upon the earth , so a man rests upon the bosom of God ; he is nourished by unfail- ing fountains , and draws at his need inexhaustible power . Who can set bounds to the possibilities of ...
Page 88
... leaf and one is flower ; relation , sympathy , stirring in every vein . And what is that root ? Is not that the soul of his soul ? A thought too bold ; a dream too wild . Yet when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more ...
... leaf and one is flower ; relation , sympathy , stirring in every vein . And what is that root ? Is not that the soul of his soul ? A thought too bold ; a dream too wild . Yet when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more ...
Page 96
... raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products . A strange process too , this by which experience is converted into thought , as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin 96 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products . A strange process too , this by which experience is converted into thought , as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin 96 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
Page 97
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. thought , as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin . The manufacture goes forward at all hours . The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. thought , as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin . The manufacture goes forward at all hours . The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation ...
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