Essays: First series, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - 343 páginas |
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... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ...
... nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ...
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First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a ...
First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a ...
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... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and mag- nify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its ...
... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and mag- nify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its ...
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... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works , and delights in startling us with ...
... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works , and delights in startling us with ...
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... nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological ...
... nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological ...
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