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We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia ...
We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia ...
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All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live ...
All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live ...
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Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its ...
Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its ...
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The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply , — speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the ...
The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply , — speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the ...
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When a a thought of 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 ...
When a a thought of 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 ...
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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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