The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
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... true . The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quot- ing my lord and the prince and the countess , who thus said or did to him . The ambitious vul- gar show you their spoons and brooches and rings , and preserve their cards ...
... true . The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quot- ing my lord and the prince and the countess , who thus said or did to him . The ambitious vul- gar show you their spoons and brooches and rings , and preserve their cards ...
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... true , that it is true in gleams and fragments . Then its countenance waxes stern and grand , and we see that it must be true . It now shows itself ethical and prac- tical . We learn that God Is ; that he is in me ; and that all things ...
... true , that it is true in gleams and fragments . Then its countenance waxes stern and grand , and we see that it must be true . It now shows itself ethical and prac- tical . We learn that God Is ; that he is in me ; and that all things ...
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