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 eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am... The Bombay University Calendar - Page 174by University of Bombay - 1906Full view - About this book
| Theology - 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 - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...There I feel that nothing can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground...egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am no thing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes) which Nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,...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 particle... | |
| 1848 - 596 pages
...There I feel that nothing 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 the blythe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 408 pages
...There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,...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 particle... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,...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... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,...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... | |
| College students' writings, American - 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...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 particle... | |
| Thomas Pearson - Apologetics - 1854 - 640 pages
...character until seen with the shore or the ship." Man is at once the worshipper and the object of worship. "Standing on the bare" ground, my head bathed by the...uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. — The \ currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." Prayer,... | |
| Day Kellogg Lee - Textile workers - 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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