 Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part...  Emerson: His Contribution to Literature - Page 64by David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 177 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplited into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 pages
...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplited into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing.... | |
 | Ernest Albert Baker - 1908 - 316 pages
...can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 pages
...little tract by sketching roughly ' that wonderful congruity which exists between man and the world. ' ' Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. ... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...eyeball ; I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend... | |
 | Durant Drake - 1916 - 452 pages
...impression, when the mind is open to their influence. ... In the woods, we return to reason and faith. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." l In such moments of insight... | |
 | John Herman Randall - 1916 - 376 pages
...having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all ; the currents of the universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Out of the lower into the... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 122 pages
...expression of pantheism which brought such ridicule upon Emerson at the outset of his career. "I am a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and parcel of God" (I, 16). But Emerson soon perceived... | |
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