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Words are signs of natural facts . 2. Particular natural facts are symbols of
particular spiritual facts . ... 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 .
Words are signs of natural facts . 2. Particular natural facts are symbols of
particular spiritual facts . ... 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 .
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But this origin of all words that convey a spiritual iinport , - so conspicuous a fact
in the history of language , -- is our least debt to nature . It is not words only that
are emblematic ; it is things which are emblematic . Every natural · fact is a
symbol ...
But this origin of all words that convey a spiritual iinport , - so conspicuous a fact
in the history of language , -- is our least debt to nature . It is not words only that
are emblematic ; it is things which are emblematic . Every natural · fact is a
symbol ...
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... other being to him . And neither can man be understood without these objects ,
nor these objects without man . All the facts in natural history taken by themselves
, have no value , but are barren , like a single sex . But marry it 3 LANGUAGE .
... other being to him . And neither can man be understood without these objects ,
nor these objects without man . All the facts in natural history taken by themselves
, have no value , but are barren , like a single sex . But marry it 3 LANGUAGE .
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Whole Floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ;
but the most trival of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or
noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy , or
, in ...
Whole Floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ;
but the most trival of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or
noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy , or
, in ...
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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 . The
same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages .
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 . The
same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages .
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Página 106 - 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.
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Página 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Página 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 22 - 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 expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.
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| Título | Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editora | Phillips, Sampson, 1856 |
| Original de | Harvard University |
| Digitalizado | 15 nov. 2007 |
| Num. págs. | 383 páginas |
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