The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the dis- tant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Cati- line . It is the universal nature which gives worth . to particular men and things . Human ...
... mean- ness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the dis- tant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Cati- line . It is the universal nature which gives worth . to particular men and things . Human ...
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... mean , but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours ; of this old discontent ? What is the universal sense of want and ignorance , but the fine innuendo by which the soul makes its enormous ...
... mean , but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours ; of this old discontent ? What is the universal sense of want and ignorance , but the fine innuendo by which the soul makes its enormous ...
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... mean service to the world , for which they for- sake their native nobleness , they resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty , to escape the rapa- city of the Pacha , and reserve all their ...
... mean service to the world , for which they for- sake their native nobleness , they resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty , to escape the rapa- city of the Pacha , and reserve all their ...
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