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The wind sows the seed ; the sun evaporates the sea , the wind blows the vapor
to the field ; the ice , on the other side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; the
rain feeds the plant ; the plant feeds the animal ; and thus the endless circulations
...
The wind sows the seed ; the sun evaporates the sea , the wind blows the vapor
to the field ; the ice , on the other side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; the
rain feeds the plant ; the plant feeds the animal ; and thus the endless circulations
...
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The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the side of the ablest
navigators . ” So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a
noble act is done , — perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; ' when
Leonidas and ...
The winds and waves , " said Gibbon , " are always on the side of the ablest
navigators . ” So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven . When a
noble act is done , — perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; ' when
Leonidas and ...
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But , " his biographer says , “ the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue
sitting by his side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or
heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its cradle
.
But , " his biographer says , “ the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue
sitting by his side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or
heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its cradle
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There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet
comes by , he tries his fortune at reading her riddle . There seems to be a
necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and
storm ...
There sits the Sphinx at the road - side , and from age to age , as each prophet
comes by , he tries his fortune at reading her riddle . There seems to be a
necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night , river and
storm ...
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their first origin ; in other words , visible nature must have a spiritual and moral
side . ” This doctrine is abstruse , and though the images of “ garment , ” “ scoriæ ,
" “ mirror , ” & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler
and ...
their first origin ; in other words , visible nature must have a spiritual and moral
side . ” This doctrine is abstruse , and though the images of “ garment , ” “ scoriæ ,
" “ mirror , ” & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler
and ...
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Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
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.
Página 7 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
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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