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a a There is one mind common 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 . What Plato has thought , he may think ...
a a There is one mind common 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 . What Plato has thought , he may think ...
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In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works . It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist ...
In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works . It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist ...
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I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously ' gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances , we invent anew the orders and ...
I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously ' gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances , we invent anew the orders and ...
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Kingdom and lordship , power and estate , are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both ; the sum total of both is the same .
Kingdom and lordship , power and estate , are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both ; the sum total of both is the same .
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In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space ...
In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space ...
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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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