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... of his metamor- phoses ; Calidasa of his transmigration of souls . For these fables are our own thoughts carried out . What keeps those wild tales in circulation for thousands of years ? What but the wild fact to 12 DEMONOLOGY .
... of his metamor- phoses ; Calidasa of his transmigration of souls . For these fables are our own thoughts carried out . What keeps those wild tales in circulation for thousands of years ? What but the wild fact to 12 DEMONOLOGY .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. thousands of years ? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory ? Nor is the fact quite solitary , for in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predom- inate over the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. thousands of years ? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory ? Nor is the fact quite solitary , for in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predom- inate over the ...
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... fact . Why then should not symp- toms , auguries , forebodings be , and , as one said , the moanings of the spirit ? We are let by this experience into the high region of Cause , and acquainted with the identity of very unlike - seeming ...
... fact . Why then should not symp- toms , auguries , forebodings be , and , as one said , the moanings of the spirit ? We are let by this experience into the high region of Cause , and acquainted with the identity of very unlike - seeming ...
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... facts prefiguring ( yes , distinctly an- nouncing ) his fate , if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign . The sign is always there , if only the eye were also ; just as under every tree in the speckled ...
... facts prefiguring ( yes , distinctly an- nouncing ) his fate , if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign . The sign is always there , if only the eye were also ; just as under every tree in the speckled ...
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... fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction . The lovers of marvels , of what we call the occult and unproved sciences , of mesmer- VOL . X. 2 ism , of astrology , of coincidences , of intercourse DEMONOLOGY . 17.
... fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction . The lovers of marvels , of what we call the occult and unproved sciences , of mesmer- VOL . X. 2 ism , of astrology , of coincidences , of intercourse DEMONOLOGY . 17.
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Página 96 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 98 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 229 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can.
Página 142 - ... lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Página 439 - ... as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he. They felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority. Indian relics abound in Concord, — arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles, and fragments of pottery; and on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented. These, and every circumstance touching the Indian, were important in his eyes. His visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the...
Página 350 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top, and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
Página 427 - ... books, and assured him that he, Thoreau, and not the librarian, was the proper custodian of these. In short, the President found the petitioner so formidable, and the rules getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving him a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter. ' No truer American existed than Thoreau. His preference of his country and condition was genuine, and his aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
Página 447 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them." "The locust z-ing." "Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." "Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.