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... speak of form in a thinker to whom our debt is so large for his matter , if there were not so much bad literary imitation of Emerson . Dr. Holmes mourn- fully admits that ' one who talks like Emerson or like Carlyle soon finds himself ...
... speak of form in a thinker to whom our debt is so large for his matter , if there were not so much bad literary imitation of Emerson . Dr. Holmes mourn- fully admits that ' one who talks like Emerson or like Carlyle soon finds himself ...
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... speaking , therefore , all that is separate from us , all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME , that is , both nature and art , all other men and my own body , must be ranked under this name , NATURE . In enumerating the values ...
... speaking , therefore , all that is separate from us , all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME , that is , both nature and art , all other men and my own body , must be ranked under this name , NATURE . In enumerating the values ...
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... speak of nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind . We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects . It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter ...
... speak of nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind . We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects . It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter ...
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... speak to it ; it can speak again ; it can yield me thought already formed and alive . " In fact , the eye , —the mind , —is always accompanied by these forms , male and female ; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the ...
... speak to it ; it can speak again ; it can yield me thought already formed and alive . " In fact , the eye , —the mind , —is always accompanied by these forms , male and female ; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the ...
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... speak her fair . 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 ...
... speak her fair . 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 ...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses and lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização completa - 1883 |
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abstrac action ALFRED AINGER American appear astronomy beauty become behold better born Carlyle character church conservatism divine doctrine earth Emerson eternal exist fact faculties faith feel genius give Goethe heart heaven honour hope hour human idea infinite inspiration intellect JOHN MORLEY labour land LESLIE STEPHEN light live look manner manual labour means ment mind moral morning nature never noble objects perfect persons philosophy plant Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry R. W. CHURCH RALPH WALDO EMERSON reason reform relation religion rich scholar seems sense sentiment society solitude soul speak spirit stand stars sublime things thou thought tion to-day trade Transcendental Transcendentalist true truth universal Uranus virtue Walden Pond whilst whole wisdom wise wish words
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Página 46 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 18 - When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; — before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind; and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture?
Página 74 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Página 91 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the "familiar, the low.
Página 68 - 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. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves.
Página 225 - ... according as that good man frequents the house. He entertains him, gives him gifts, feasts him, lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is liberally supped, and sumptuously laid to sleep, rises, is saluted, and after the malmsey, or some...
Página 80 - If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town, — in the insight into trades and manufactures ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in art; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech.
Página 76 - There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Página 23 - Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
Página 36 - All things with which we deal, preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel ? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun, — it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.