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Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these ...
Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these ...
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Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines . With consistency a great soul has simply ...
Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines . With consistency a great soul has simply ...
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... century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class .
... century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class .
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But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings , and deal with Cause and Effect , the chancellors of God . In the Will work and acquire , and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance , and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations .
But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings , and deal with Cause and Effect , the chancellors of God . In the Will work and acquire , and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance , and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations .
Page 84
... by giving them the like gratifications another day , — bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the compensation intended ; for what else ? Is it that they are l . , to have leave to pray and praise ?
... by giving them the like gratifications another day , — bank - stock and doubloons , venison and champagne ? This must be the compensation intended ; for what else ? Is it that they are l . , to have leave to pray and praise ?
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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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