Nature, Addresses and LecturesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 - 461 páginas This book is the first volume in the 1903 Riverside Press's Centenary Edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's collected works. This volume contains a biographical sketch of Emerson and his work "Nature: Addresses and Lectures." The works were compiled and edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson's son, Edward Waldo Emerson. |
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... better consideration , we may distribute aspects of Beauty in a threefold manner . 1. First , the simple perception of natural forms is a delight . The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man , that , in its ...
... better consideration , we may distribute aspects of Beauty in a threefold manner . 1. First , the simple perception of natural forms is a delight . The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man , that , in its ...
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... better than good dreams , unless they be executed ! " cc - - The same good office is performed by Pro- perty and its filial systems of debt and credit . Debt , grinding debt , whose iron face the widow , the orphan , and the sons of ...
... better than good dreams , unless they be executed ! " cc - - The same good office is performed by Pro- perty and its filial systems of debt and credit . Debt , grinding debt , whose iron face the widow , the orphan , and the sons of ...
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... persons . No man is its . enemy . It accepts whatsoever befalls , as part of its lesson . It is a watcher more than a doer , and it is a doer , only that it may the better watch . VII SPIRIT T is essential to a true theory of 60 NATURE.
... persons . No man is its . enemy . It accepts whatsoever befalls , as part of its lesson . It is a watcher more than a doer , and it is a doer , only that it may the better watch . VII SPIRIT T is essential to a true theory of 60 NATURE.
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... thick darkness , there are not wanting gleams of a better light , casional examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force , with reason as - - - OC- well as understanding . Such examples are , the traditions 72 NATURE.
... thick darkness , there are not wanting gleams of a better light , casional examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force , with reason as - - - OC- well as understanding . Such examples are , the traditions 72 NATURE.
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... 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 ,
... 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 ,
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Página 82 - The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man.
Página 10 - 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 eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, — master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
Página 84 - In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Página 87 - He shall see that nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal and one is print. Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature,
Página 89 - Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Página 17 - Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Página 24 - 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.' But beauty in nature is / not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Página 461 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Página 95 - I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake. It is pearls and rubies to his discourse. Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power.
Página 4 - Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, Nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is Nature ? All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of Nature.