Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's . strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's . strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate ...
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... common origin of very diverse works . It is the spirit and not the fact that is iden- tical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other ...
... common origin of very diverse works . It is the spirit and not the fact that is iden- tical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other ...
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... common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes ...
... common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes ...
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... common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both ; the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred , and Scanderbeg , and Gustavus ? Suppose they were virtuous ; did they wear out virtue ? As great a ...
... common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both ; the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred , and Scanderbeg , and Gustavus ? Suppose they were virtuous ; did they wear out virtue ? As great a ...
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