Major Writers of America, Volume 1Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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Perry Miller. NATURE ( THE idea of a book on the grand subject of Nature seems to have been in Emerson's mind for some time before he got round to writing it ; in the journal he kept on shipboard when returning from England in 1833 he ...
Perry Miller. NATURE ( THE idea of a book on the grand subject of Nature seems to have been in Emerson's mind for some time before he got round to writing it ; in the journal he kept on shipboard when returning from England in 1833 he ...
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Perry Miller. is , both nature and art , all other men and my own body , must be ranked under this name , NATURE . In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum , I shall use the word in both senses ; -in its common and in ...
Perry Miller. is , both nature and art , all other men and my own body , must be ranked under this name , NATURE . In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum , I shall use the word in both senses ; -in its common and in ...
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... nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession . Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the ... nature . We are not built like a ship to be tossed , but like a house to stand . It is a natural consequence ...
... nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession . Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the ... nature . We are not built like a ship to be tossed , but like a house to stand . It is a natural consequence ...
Contents
WILLIAM BRADFORD | 3 |
My Father and Your Father To | 4 |
Introduction | 10 |
Copyright | |
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