Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 12
... fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpil- lar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant ...
... fall by infinite di- ameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpil- lar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant ...
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... true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the do- minion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; HISTORY . 29.
... true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the do- minion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; HISTORY . 29.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of them glorifies him . See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that ev- ery word should be a thing . These figures , he ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of them glorifies him . See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that ev- ery word should be a thing . These figures , he ...
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... falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune . Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with SELF-RELIANCE.
... falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune . Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with SELF-RELIANCE.
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... sculp- ture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of 40 ESSAY II .
... sculp- ture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of 40 ESSAY II .
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