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We have the same interest in condition and character . We honor the rich , because they have externally the ... describes his unattained but attainable self . All literof men ; course . ature writes the character of the wise man 6 ESSAY I.
We have the same interest in condition and character . We honor the rich , because they have externally the ... describes his unattained but attainable self . All literof men ; course . ature writes the character of the wise man 6 ESSAY I.
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course . ature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is ...
course . ature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is ...
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How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and ...
How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and ...
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“ The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock , ” says Heeren , in his Researches on the Ethiopians , “ determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it ...
“ The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock , ” says Heeren , in his Researches on the Ethiopians , “ determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it ...
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... one character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculpture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that ...
... one character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculpture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that ...
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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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