Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and PoetD. Appleton and Company, 1881 - 327 páginas |
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... Theories and Phenomena . 107 The Stars .... 108 What we see in Nature . 109 Delight in Nature .... 111 Nature and our Moods .. 112 Various Uses of Nature . 113 Commodity . 113 Beauty .. 115 Beauty for Itself .. 116 The Spiritual Aspects ...
... Theories and Phenomena . 107 The Stars .... 108 What we see in Nature . 109 Delight in Nature .... 111 Nature and our Moods .. 112 Various Uses of Nature . 113 Commodity . 113 Beauty .. 115 Beauty for Itself .. 116 The Spiritual Aspects ...
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... , indeed , Emerson has done ; and his undigested theories may well , to use his own phrase , " be preferred to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion . " VI . CRITICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL . two mediums : oral 84 EMERSON .
... , indeed , Emerson has done ; and his undigested theories may well , to use his own phrase , " be preferred to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion . " VI . CRITICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL . two mediums : oral 84 EMERSON .
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... theories . We shall also bring together passages from his later writings bearing upon the same or kindred topics , which explain , confirm , and in some degree modify the views therein propounded . In a brief Introduction , he sets ...
... theories . We shall also bring together passages from his later writings bearing upon the same or kindred topics , which explain , confirm , and in some degree modify the views therein propounded . In a brief Introduction , he sets ...
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... THEORIES AND PHENOMENA . " All science has one aim , namely , to find a theory of Nature . We have theories of races and of functions , but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of crea- tion . We are now so far from the road to ...
... THEORIES AND PHENOMENA . " All science has one aim , namely , to find a theory of Nature . We have theories of races and of functions , but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of crea- tion . We are now so far from the road to ...
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... theory appears , it will be its own evidence . Its test is that it will explain all phe- nomena . Now , many are ... theory - one which explains all phenomena . We do not think that any finite mind can frame such a theory ; or that , if ...
... theory appears , it will be its own evidence . Its test is that it will explain all phe- nomena . Now , many are ... theory - one which explains all phenomena . We do not think that any finite mind can frame such a theory ; or that , if ...
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action appears beauty Carlyle Celts Chartism Church compensation discourse divine doctrine earth Emer Emerson England English nature English Traits Englishman essay eternal Europe existence expression facts faith feel friendship genius gives Goethe Greek heart heaven Hermann Grimm hour human idea ideal ideal theory immortality infinite Infinite Mind intellectual Jesus land less light live look manners matter means mind Montaigne moral nation Nature never noble nomadism Norsemen passages perfect persons philosophy Plato Plotinus poems poet poetry prayer preacher present prudence race Ralph Waldo Emerson relation religion seems sense sentiment society soul speak spirit stand stars Stonehenge Swedenborg theory things thou thought tion to-day transcendentalist true truth unity universe virtue wealth whole William of Wykeham wisdom wise Wittem words write Xenophon Zoroaster
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Página 323 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Página 121 - 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 94 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
Página 175 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Página 309 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Página 172 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 174 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Página 159 - Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Página 100 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 118 - When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; — before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind; and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture? Does not the New World clothe his form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?