Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power.
... fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power.
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... facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie ... fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life ...
... facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie ... fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life ...
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... Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combi- nations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the HISTORY . 5.
... Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combi- nations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the HISTORY . 5.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. nations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity , the foun- dation of friendship and love , and of the heroism ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. nations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity , the foun- dation of friendship and love , and of the heroism ...
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... fact and circumstance , —— in the run- ning river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . - These hints , dropped as it were from ...
... fact and circumstance , —— in the run- ning river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . - These hints , dropped as it were from ...
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