...it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one. ISAAC DISRAELI — Miscellanies. 8 expeditious 񁀀 H ڒ EMERSON — Essays. Circles. 9 As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle...

...approach to things from the individual outward. ' ' The eye is the first circle, ' ' says Emerson. ' ' The horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary picture is repeated without end. . . . There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to...

...Emerson's, with "wild" meaning "free," and the repressed allusion being to the opening of Circles: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second." Sleep, fully real, is the ultimate ever-early candor, a first cognition of whiteness. "A diamond jubilance...

...Bildlichkeit her an den Beginn von Emersons Essay "Circles" denken mit seiner Bezugnahme auf Augustinus: The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...the world. St. Augustine described the nature of God äs a circle whose centre was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.85 Emersons wie des Cusaners...

...elegance and balance. But the expression of ideas in music was another matter. Emerson wrote in Circles, "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end."24 We cannot know whether the notion of individual human centrality with which Emerson's essay...

...depicted in this passage likewise contains a conjunction of inward and outward: Emerson tells us that "throughout nature this primary figure is repeated...is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world." As something more than a physical form - a hieroglyphic figure in "the cipher of the world" - the circle...

...will show that this is also the case with the transcendental idealist RW Emerson (Boston 1803-1882): The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose center was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere. We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense...

...create and order the universe, always begin with the eye and end with God, forming a closed circle: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere" ("Circles," W 2:301). This universe is a circular eye, necessarily ubiquitous, and, like Emerson's...

...half-hidden agenda becomes primary, as well as epistemological rather than entrepreneurial, priority: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...nature, this primary figure is repeated without end"— or so the belated poet says, taking back from Copernicus an outrageous opthalmocentrism, and making...

...small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle. Orthodoxy The Maniac (p. 33) Emerson, Ralph Waldo The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. The Complete Essays and other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays Circles (p. 279) Pope, Alexander...