Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's . strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's . strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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... Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this univer- sal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
... Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this univer- sal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
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... Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into ...
... Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into ...
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... Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic ex- pression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
... Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic ex- pression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
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... Plato , and Milton is , that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the ...
... Plato , and Milton is , that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the ...
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