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Page 38
No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
Page 174
But here is a strange fact ; it may seem to many men , in revising their experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft ...
But here is a strange fact ; it may seem to many men , in revising their experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft ...
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The more cultivated , in their account of their own experience , cull out the pleasing , poetic circumstance , — the visit to Rome , the man of genius they saw , the brilliant friend they know ; still further on perhaps the gorgeous ...
The more cultivated , in their account of their own experience , cull out the pleasing , poetic circumstance , — the visit to Rome , the man of genius they saw , the brilliant friend they know ; still further on perhaps the gorgeous ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series Volume 2 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2010 |
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