Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this univer- sal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the ...
... feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this univer- sal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the ...
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... feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of ...
... feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of ...
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... are adorned , 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 Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the 18 ESSAY 1 .
... are adorned , 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 Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the 18 ESSAY 1 .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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 repro- duced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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 repro- duced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust ...
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... 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 later ? What but this , that every man passes ...
... 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 later ? What but this , that every man passes ...
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