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" The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the... "
Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 34
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pages
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A Commentary on Emerson's Early Lectures (1833-1836): With an Index-concordance

Kenneth Walter Cameron - 1961 - 438 pages
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The American Literary Record, Volume 2

Willard Thorp - 1961 - 1030 pages
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Major Writers of America, Volume 1

Perry Miller - 1962 - 1164 pages
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Emerson: a Collection of Critical Essays

Milton Ridvas Konvitz - 1962 - 204 pages
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Man and Nature in America

Arthur Alphonse Ekirch - 1963 - 256 pages
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Makers of the American Mind

Robert Clifton Whittemore - 1964 - 526 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Josephine Miles - 1964 - 50 pages
...posture of the blade as it bends before the wind. . . . the whole of Nature is a metaphor or image of the human Mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." Such scientific titles as "On the Relation of Man to the Globe," "Water," and "The Naturalist" alternated...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole...
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Critical Essays on Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert E. Burkholder, Joel Myerson - 1983 - 552 pages
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