 | Robert Brown - 1877 - 520 pages
...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 forms is...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
...right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. y. Sir THOS. BROWNE— Hydriotaphia. Ch. V. The eye And drooping daffodilly, And silverleaved lily, Au.l...dearly. n. TENNYSON— Anacreontic*. And buttercups h. EMERSON— Essays. Circles. The small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The circle mov'd, a circle... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. g. Sir THOS. BKOWNE— Hydriotaphia. Ch. V. The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figuro is repeated \vitb out end. It is the highest emblem iu tincipher of the world. h. EMIBSON —... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figuro . LONGFELLOW — Christus. The Golden Л. EMIBSON— Essays. Circles. The small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The circle mov'd, a circle... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. X. CIECLES. THE eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is...centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere. We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms. One moral we have already... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 356 pages
...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...Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whosTrcentrerwaif everywhere and itlTcircumference — BOwliere. We are all ourlifetime reading the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...profile of the sphere : Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. X. CIECLES. THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is...figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emhlem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle 'whose centre... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...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
...outside, Scan the profile of the sphere ; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. THE eye he 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...profile of the sphere ; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. X. CIECLES. THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is...centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere. We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms. One moral we have already... | |
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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. 
