...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he...

...then linked it to the larger question of the religious life. As usual Nature was his starting point: There is never a beginning, there is never an end...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning to itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning and ending he can never...

...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing—beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages....

...that of nature. Every day, the sun: and, after sunset, night and her stars. Even the winds blow; even the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing,...There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to [its] inexplicable continuity . . . but always circular power returning to itself. Therein it resembles...

...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow,...beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him ... Ralph Waldo Emerson, from...

...Discourse (Albany: State University of New York Press, l992). does not survive the next sentences: "The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle...most engages. He must settle its value in his mind" (CW 1:53, 54, 67). 1f this sequence grants women a substantial power of eye and tongue, it all the...

...The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature . . . There is never a beginning, there is never an end,...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR" / was hunting — probably...

...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he...

...familiar with the Old Testament's association of beholding with begetting: Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. But no sooner did he provoke his audience with this gesture toward what he called the "unintelligible"...

...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Everyday, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he...