The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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Page 43
... look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox , crocodile , and fish . It seems as if nature , in regarding the geologic night behind her , when , in five or six millenniums , she had turned out five or six men ...
... look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox , crocodile , and fish . It seems as if nature , in regarding the geologic night behind her , when , in five or six millenniums , she had turned out five or six men ...
Page 44
... looks upon discloses a second sense , and ulterior senses . His perception of the generation of contraries , of death out of life , and life out of death , that law by which , in nature , decomposition is recomposition , and ...
... looks upon discloses a second sense , and ulterior senses . His perception of the generation of contraries , of death out of life , and life out of death , that law by which , in nature , decomposition is recomposition , and ...
Page 66
... look to self , in any common form of literary pride ! a theoretic or speculative man , but whom no practical man in the universe could affect to scorn . Plato is a gownsman : his garment , though of purple , and almost sky - woven , is ...
... look to self , in any common form of literary pride ! a theoretic or speculative man , but whom no practical man in the universe could affect to scorn . Plato is a gownsman : his garment , though of purple , and almost sky - woven , is ...
Page 67
... look at the back of his head for then the influx which is from the Lord is disturbed . " The angels , from the sound of the voice , know a man's love ; from the articulation of the sound , his wisdom ; and from the sense of the words ...
... look at the back of his head for then the influx which is from the Lord is disturbed . " The angels , from the sound of the voice , know a man's love ; from the articulation of the sound , his wisdom ; and from the sense of the words ...
Page 82
... look he casts on any object . Is his eye creative ? Does he not rest in angles and colors , but beholds the design , - he will presently undervalue the actual object . In powerful moments , his thought has dissolved the works of art and ...
... look he casts on any object . Is his eye creative ? Does he not rest in angles and colors , but beholds the design , - he will presently undervalue the actual object . In powerful moments , his thought has dissolved the works of art and ...
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