The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold ... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
... man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold ... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
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... man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the inde- pendence of solitude . ― The objection to ... man's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect I anticipate your argument . I hear a preacher ...
... man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the inde- pendence of solitude . ― The objection to ... man's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect I anticipate your argument . I hear a preacher ...
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... man's justice is another's injustice ; one man's beauty another's ugliness ; one man's wis- dom another's folly ; as one beholds the same objects CIRCLES 315.
... man's justice is another's injustice ; one man's beauty another's ugliness ; one man's wis- dom another's folly ; as one beholds the same objects CIRCLES 315.
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