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Page 13
Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , - a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture ...
Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , - a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture ...
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a very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must ...
a very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must ...
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The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower , with the lightness and delicate finish , as well as the aerial proportions and perspective , of vegetable beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individualized ...
The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower , with the lightness and delicate finish , as well as the aerial proportions and perspective , of vegetable beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individualized ...
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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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At home I dream that at Naples , at Rome , I can be intoxicated with beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the > sea , and at last wake up in Naples , SELF - RELIANCE . 71.
At home I dream that at Naples , at Rome , I can be intoxicated with beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the > sea , and at last wake up in Naples , SELF - RELIANCE . 71.
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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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