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... on the balance of expression , ” a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in cona vulsive pain ...
... on the balance of expression , ” a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in cona vulsive pain ...
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All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all 30 ESSAY I.
All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and all 30 ESSAY I.
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We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the ...
We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the ...
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He may err in the expression of them , but he knows that these things are so , like day and night , not to be disputed . My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving ; - the idlest reverie , the faintest native emotion , command my ...
He may err in the expression of them , but he knows that these things are so , like day and night , not to be disputed . My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving ; - the idlest reverie , the faintest native emotion , command my ...
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The soul is no traveller ; the wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any occasion call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still , and shall make men sensible by the expression of his ...
The soul is no traveller ; the wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any occasion call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still , and shall make men sensible by the expression of his ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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