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What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
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All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history ... power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us .
All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history ... power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us .
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... in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of а 1 Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that 18 ESSAY I.
... in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of а 1 Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that 18 ESSAY I.
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1 Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine ...
1 Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine ...
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries ...
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries ...
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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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