 | Robert Brown - 1877 - 488 pages
...around, around, In a great fire I almost took for God.' ' Nature,' says Emerson, ' centres into balls. The eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it...the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustin [following earlier sages] described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1877 - 520 pages
...around, around, In a great fire I almost took for God.' ' Nature,' says Emerson, ' centres into balls. The eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it...the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustin [following earlier sages] described -the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. y. Sir THOS. BROWNE— Hydriotaphia. Ch. V. The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. h. EMERSON— Essays. Circles. The small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The circle mov'd, a circle... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. g. Sir THOS. BROWNE- Hydriotaphia. Ch. V. The Golden Legend. Pt. II. 20 BELLS. 21 I heard The...bells of the convent ringing Noon from their noisy t figuro is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. Л. EMIBSON—... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 356 pages
...Scan the profile of the sphere ; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. X. CIRCLES. THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it...Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whosTrcentrerwaif everywhere and itlTcircumference — BOwliere. We are all ourlifetime reading the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified) A new genesis were here. X. CIRCLES. THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is the second ; and throughout nature th?3 primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere ; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. nction the end, and not the means. And I fear they througnout nature this primary figure is repeal«! without end. It is the highest emblem и the cipher... | |
 | 1887 - 608 pages
...thought is strikingly presented by Emerson in his interesting essay on ' Circles.' ' The eye,' ho says, ' is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is...centre was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.' The verses about the moon, which really lead up to this, are extremely characteristic and suggestive.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart. V; 21 CIRCLES. (323) ESSAY X. CIRCLES. THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is the second ; and throughout nature tin's primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.... | |
 | Rufus Fuller - 1892 - 75 pages
...geometrical principles known here that are not known there. The sage of Concord begins Essay X thus: " The eye is the first circle, the horizon which it forms is the second, and all our lifetime we are reading the copious sense of this first of forms." The circle pertains to another... | |
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THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is the second ; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. 
