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" To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. "
Emerson Year Book: Selections for Every Day in the Year from the Essays of ... - Page 59
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 155 pages
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...to this their warranty-deeds give no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most f persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very...but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover ^ of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...to this their warranty-deeds give no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. M4st persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very...but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The l»ver of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
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Harper's Anthology for College Courses in Composition and Literature: Of ...

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...admonishing smile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature. J To speak truly; few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 4 I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my...
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Harper's Anthology: Prose

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pages
...admonishing smile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature. 3 To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature. 4 I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my...
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New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ...

Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have...but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...farms, yet to this their warrantydeeds give no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have...but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who...
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"A White Heron" and the Question of Minor Literature

Louis A. Renza - 1985 - 260 pages
...Whicher (Boston: Riverside Press, 1957), 23: "To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. . . . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of a child." 12, Annette Kolodny, The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American...
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Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art

Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pages
...yet to this their land-deeds give them no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have...but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who...
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Doctrine and Experience: Essays in American Philosophy

Vincent G. Potter - 1988 - 292 pages
...within the whole inner being of man. As he says, "To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have...only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child."40 Emerson was guided in his thinking by poetic perception. Thus, as he sees it,...
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American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent

Myra Jehlen - 1986 - 276 pages
...senses are still truly adjusted to each other." Ordinarily, "few adult persons can see nature," and "most persons do not see the sun. At least, they have a very superficial seeing." Now, when his eye penetrates "into infinite space," he will lose his seeing in infinite sight. Then...
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