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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the ...
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the ...
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction .
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction .
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In these caverns , already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , when art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself .
In these caverns , already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , when art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself .
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One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws ...
One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws ...
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Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and , unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the ...
Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and , unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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