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... to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institu tions . a Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , 24 ESSAY I.
... to him a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institu tions . a Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , 24 ESSAY I.
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Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have , from time to time , walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer ...
Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have , from time to time , walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer ...
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One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being ...
One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being ...
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When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth , his strength was renewed .
When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth , his strength was renewed .
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In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . ... and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then > a the facts fall ...
In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . ... and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then > a the facts fall ...
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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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