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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... me less probable ? " Four of the Emerson boys went through college , and each had by teaching to help the others ; the younger ones , when their turn to work came , in some measure freeing the elder brothers BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xvii.
... me less probable ? " Four of the Emerson boys went through college , and each had by teaching to help the others ; the younger ones , when their turn to work came , in some measure freeing the elder brothers BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xvii.
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... turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good is eternally reproductive . The beauty of nature re - forms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed ...
... turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good is eternally reproductive . The beauty of nature re - forms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed ...
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... turn the street into a puppet- show . The men , the women , - talking , run- ning , bartering , fighting , —the earnest mechanic , the lounger , the beggar , the boys , the dogs , are unrealized at once , or , at least , wholly detached ...
... turn the street into a puppet- show . The men , the women , - talking , run- ning , bartering , fighting , —the earnest mechanic , the lounger , the beggar , the boys , the dogs , are unrealized at once , or , at least , wholly detached ...
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... Turn the eyes upside down , by looking at the landscape through your legs , and how agreeable is the picture , though you have seen it any time these twenty years ! In these cases , by mechanical means , is sug- gested the difference ...
... Turn the eyes upside down , by looking at the landscape through your legs , and how agreeable is the picture , though you have seen it any time these twenty years ! In these cases , by mechanical means , is sug- gested the difference ...
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... but the epoch of one degradation . ' We distrust and deny inwardly our sym- pathy with nature . We own and disown our relation to it , by turns . We are like Nebuchad- nezzar , dethroned , bereft of reason , and eating 70 NATURE.
... but the epoch of one degradation . ' We distrust and deny inwardly our sym- pathy with nature . We own and disown our relation to it , by turns . We are like Nebuchad- nezzar , dethroned , bereft of reason , and eating 70 NATURE.
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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.