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If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
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We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia ...
We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia ...
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I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience , and verifying them here .
I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience , and verifying them here .
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The trivial experience of every day is always veri-fying some old prediction to us , and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and ...
The trivial experience of every day is always veri-fying some old prediction to us , and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and ...
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The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry , and the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world , he has ...
The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry , and the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world , he has ...
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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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