 | 1837 - 424 pages
...thought not only unexplained but inexplicable, as language, sleep, dreams, beasts, sex." — p. 7. " Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...air, — and uplifted into infinite space, — all egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball." — p. 13. " Whilst we use this grand cipher to... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am no thing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes) which Nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...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... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." — P. 196. " The doctrine of the Divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...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... | |
 | 1850 - 424 pages
...Mr. Emerson defines his own position more exactly in the following precise and philosophical terms. " Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...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... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate... | |
 | 1850 - 778 pages
...Divine. Would you see G-od, see me, see thyself, when thbu also thinkest as I think." " The currents of universal being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." ..." There were moments, in the history of heaven, when the human race was not counted by individuals,... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 368 pages
...the passage on the landscape. Miss Mumby thought it silly enough, in a printed book, to say, — " Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — I become a transparent eyeball." Celia Downs declared there was a fine suggestion in the language.... | |
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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... 
