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The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 31
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pages
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Coleridge and the Inspired Word

Anthony John Harding - 1985 - 208 pages
...and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of thought....which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism" (EESS, p. 53). In "The Over-Soul," however, Emerson concedes a significant point when he agrees that...
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...deep force, the last fact, behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. 43 2. Das Vermächtnis der calvinistischen Weltsicht Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklung von Emersons...
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Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory

Kenneth R. Johnston - 1990 - 454 pages
...appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,...
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The Site of Our Lives: The Self and the Subject from Emerson to Foucault

James S. Hans - 1995 - 398 pages
...appreciate better the significance of what he is talking about: Here Is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that Inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,...
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Transcendentalism: A Reader

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 751 pages
...and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspinationwhich giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety...
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain ofaction and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie is the lap of immense intelligence,...
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Essays Series 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of thought....and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence...
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