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The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays ...
The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and , far back in the womb of things , sees the rays ...
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , — but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature ...
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , — but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature ...
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Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children . ... is that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there . are always individuals who retain these characteristics .
Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children . ... is that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there . are always individuals who retain these characteristics .
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The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and that without producing indignation , but only fear and obedience HISTORY . 25.
The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and that without producing indignation , but only fear and obedience HISTORY . 25.
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that without producing indignation , but only fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyranny , — is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a ...
that without producing indignation , but only fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyranny , — is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a ...
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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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