MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 - 425 páginas |
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... Soul . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is separate from us , all which Philosophy distin- guishes 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 ...
... Soul . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is separate from us , all which Philosophy distin- guishes 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 ...
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... soul . Yet although low , it is perfect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men apprehend . The misery of man appears like childish petulance , when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for ...
... soul . Yet although low , it is perfect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men apprehend . The misery of man appears like childish petulance , when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for ...
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... soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I call an ultimate end . No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty . Beauty , in its largest and profoundest sense , is one ex- pression for the universe . God is the ...
... soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I call an ultimate end . No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty . Beauty , in its largest and profoundest sense , is one ex- pression for the universe . God is the ...
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... soul within or behind his indi- vidual life , wherein , as in a firmament , the natures of Justice , Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and shine . This universal soul , he calls Reason : it is not mine or thine , or his , but we are its ...
... soul within or behind his indi- vidual life , wherein , as in a firmament , the natures of Justice , Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and shine . This universal soul , he calls Reason : it is not mine or thine , or his , but we are its ...
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... soul . " That which was unconscious truth becomes , when interpreted and defined in an object , a part of the domain of knowledge , new weapon in the magazine of power . CHAPTER V. DISCIPLINE . a In view of the significance of nature ...
... soul . " That which was unconscious truth becomes , when interpreted and defined in an object , a part of the domain of knowledge , new weapon in the magazine of power . CHAPTER V. DISCIPLINE . a In view of the significance of nature ...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson Prévia não disponível - 2016 |
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.