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tion and affection , and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects . If
the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision , outlines and surfaces become
transparent , and are no longer seen ; causes and spirits are seen through them .
tion and affection , and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects . If
the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision , outlines and surfaces become
transparent , and are no longer seen ; causes and spirits are seen through them .
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... BOSTON , JANUARY 25 , 1841 . MAN THE REFORMER . Mr. PRESIDENT ,
AND GENTLEMEN , MAN THE REFORMER A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE
MECHANICS' APPRENTICES' LIBRARY ASSOCIA- TION, Boston, JANUARY 25,
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... BOSTON , JANUARY 25 , 1841 . MAN THE REFORMER . Mr. PRESIDENT ,
AND GENTLEMEN , MAN THE REFORMER A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE
MECHANICS' APPRENTICES' LIBRARY ASSOCIA- TION, Boston, JANUARY 25,
...
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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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