Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 28
... seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is something unfriendly in each to the other , but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in ...
... seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other . There is something unfriendly in each to the other , but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in ...
Page 39
... , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet comes by , he tries his fortune at read- ing her riddle . There seems to be a necessity LANGUAGE . 39.
... , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet comes by , he tries his fortune at read- ing her riddle . There seems to be a necessity LANGUAGE . 39.
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Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. ing her riddle . There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird , acid and alkali , preƫxist in necessary ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. ing her riddle . There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and storm , beast and bird , acid and alkali , preƫxist in necessary ...
Page 43
... seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone , and is needed most by those who suf- fer from it most . Moreover , property , which has been well compared to snow , " if it fall level to- day , it will be blown into ...
... seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone , and is needed most by those who suf- fer from it most . Moreover , property , which has been well compared to snow , " if it fall level to- day , it will be blown into ...
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... ethical char- acter so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature , as to seem the end for which it was made . What- ever private purpose is answered by any member or part , this is its public and universal function 46 DISCIPLINE .
... ethical char- acter so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature , as to seem the end for which it was made . What- ever private purpose is answered by any member or part , this is its public and universal function 46 DISCIPLINE .
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