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This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
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The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a wonderful HISTORY 7.
The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a wonderful HISTORY 7.
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... in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in cona vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break TIISTORY . 13.
... in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in cona vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break TIISTORY . 13.
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Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people , we have a fourfold representation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ?
Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people , we have a fourfold representation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ?
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If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody ...
If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2019 |
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