The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 34
... true sense for a moment , but soon becomes old and false . For all symbols are fluxional ; all language is vehic- ular and transitive , and is good , as ferries and horses are , for conveyance , not as farms and houses are , for ...
... true sense for a moment , but soon becomes old and false . For all symbols are fluxional ; all language is vehic- ular and transitive , and is good , as ferries and horses are , for conveyance , not as farms and houses are , for ...
Page 35
... true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it . Let us have a little algebra , instead of this trite rhetoric , universal signs , instead of these village symbols , and we shall both be gainers . The history of hierarchies ...
... true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it . Let us have a little algebra , instead of this trite rhetoric , universal signs , instead of these village symbols , and we shall both be gainers . The history of hierarchies ...
Page 42
... true land - lord ! sea - lord air - lord ! Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly , wherever day and night meet in twilight , wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars , wherever are forms with transparent ...
... true land - lord ! sea - lord air - lord ! Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly , wherever day and night meet in twilight , wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars , wherever are forms with transparent ...
Page 59
... an approval . We live amid surfaces , and the true art of life is to skate well on them . Under the oldest mouldiest con- ventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world , and that by EXPERIENCE 59.
... an approval . We live amid surfaces , and the true art of life is to skate well on them . Under the oldest mouldiest con- ventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world , and that by EXPERIENCE 59.
Page 80
... What imports it whether it is Kepler and the sphere , Columbus and America , a reader and his book , or puss with her tail ? and It is true that all the muses and love and religion hate these developments , and will find a way 80 ...
... What imports it whether it is Kepler and the sphere , Columbus and America , a reader and his book , or puss with her tail ? and It is true that all the muses and love and religion hate these developments , and will find a way 80 ...
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