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As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
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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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No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out , and we are become timorous , desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death , and afraid of each other . Our age yields no great and perfect persons ...
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out , and we are become timorous , desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death , and afraid of each other . Our age yields no great and perfect persons ...
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The documents , too , from which the doctrine is to be drawn , charmed my fancy by their endless variety , and lay always before me , even in sleep ; for they are the tools in our hands , the bread in our basket , the transactions of ...
The documents , too , from which the doctrine is to be drawn , charmed my fancy by their endless variety , and lay always before me , even in sleep ; for they are the tools in our hands , the bread in our basket , the transactions of ...
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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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