MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 - 425 pages |
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... present one , the inaccu- racy is not material ; no confusion of thought need occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to essences un- changed by man ; space , the air , the river , the leaf . Art is applied to the mixture of his ...
... present one , the inaccu- racy is not material ; no confusion of thought need occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to essences un- changed by man ; space , the air , the river , the leaf . Art is applied to the mixture of his ...
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... present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural ob- jects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Nature never wears a mean appear- Neither does the wisest man extort her secret , and lose his curiosity ...
... present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural ob- jects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Nature never wears a mean appear- Neither does the wisest man extort her secret , and lose his curiosity ...
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... ex- perience with the present action of the mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made . -- These facts may suggest the advantage which the coun- 32 LANGUAGE .
... ex- perience with the present action of the mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made . -- These facts may suggest the advantage which the coun- 32 LANGUAGE .
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... present to the imagination , not only motions , as , of the snake , the stag , and the elephant , but colors also ; as the green grass . The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors . The granite is differenced in its ...
... present to the imagination , not only motions , as , of the snake , the stag , and the elephant , but colors also ; as the green grass . The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors . The granite is differenced in its ...
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... present design . They both put nature under foot . The first and last lesson of religion is , " The things that are seen , are temporal ; the things that are unseen , are eter- nal . " It puts an affront upon nature . It does that for ...
... present design . They both put nature under foot . The first and last lesson of religion is , " The things that are seen , are temporal ; the things that are unseen , are eter- nal . " It puts an affront upon nature . It does that for ...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 17 - Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God.
Page 77 - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it 'their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
Page 35 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? for the universe becomes transparent, and the light of higher laws than its own shines through it.
Page 66 - Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Know then that the world exists for you.
Page 16 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Page 96 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Page 49 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, , bring again, ' . -' Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 34 - 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 dial plate of the invisible.
Page 71 - ... when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Page 31 - Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages, who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols.