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I do not wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother , nor soil my gentle nest . I only
wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man , wherein to establish
man all right education tends ; as the ground which to attain is the object of ...
I do not wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother , nor soil my gentle nest . I only
wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man , wherein to establish
man all right education tends ; as the ground which to attain is the object of ...
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I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office is the first in
the world . It is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood .
And it is my duty to say that the need was never greater of new revelation than ...
I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office is the first in
the world . It is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood .
And it is my duty to say that the need was never greater of new revelation than ...
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... shades and gradations of intelligence in the compositions we call wiser and
wisest . In such high communion let us study the grand strokes of rectitude : a
bold benevolence , an independence of friends , so that not the unjust wishes of
those ...
... shades and gradations of intelligence in the compositions we call wiser and
wisest . In such high communion let us study the grand strokes of rectitude : a
bold benevolence , an independence of friends , so that not the unjust wishes of
those ...
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Such solitude denies itself ; is public and stale . The public can get public
experience , but they wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere ,
divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street .
Such solitude denies itself ; is public and stale . The public can get public
experience , but they wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere ,
divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street .
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like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm , the school , the
church , the house , and the very body and feature of man . I do not wish to look
with sour aspect at the industrious manufacturing village , or the mart of
commerce .
like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm , the school , the
church , the house , and the very body and feature of man . I do not wish to look
with sour aspect at the industrious manufacturing village , or the mart of
commerce .
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Página 21 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Página 7 - Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of...
Página 108 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic • what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven§al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 29 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
Página 128 - That is always best which gives me to myself. The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself. That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.
Página 28 - The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. Extend this element to the uttermost, and I call it an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 66 - Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth, and we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator, is himself the creator in the finite. This view, which admonishes me where the sources of wisdom and power lie, and points to virtue as to " The golden key Which opes the palace of eternity...
Página 34 - A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, cotemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.
Página 66 - As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God, he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?
Página 26 - The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection...
Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Nature, Addresses, and Lectures |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Edição | reimpressão |
| Editora | Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1883 |
| Original de | Harvard University |
| Digitalizado | 15 nov. 2007 |
| Num. págs. | 372 páginas |
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