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What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when ...
What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when ...
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... the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems the self - defence.
... the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems the self - defence.
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play for , and he would beat the air and appear stupid . Transport him to large countries , dense population , complex interests , and antagonist power , and you shall see that the man Napoleon , bounded , that is , by such a profile ...
play for , and he would beat the air and appear stupid . Transport him to large countries , dense population , complex interests , and antagonist power , and you shall see that the man Napoleon , bounded , that is , by such a profile ...
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What is the nature and power of that science - baffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
What is the nature and power of that science - baffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
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Let a Stoic open the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but : can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self - trust , new powers shall appear ; that a a man is the word made flesh , born to ...
Let a Stoic open the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but : can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self - trust , new powers shall appear ; that a a man is the word made flesh , born to ...
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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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