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... live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the ...
... live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the ...
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... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized in- to a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will ...
... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized in- to a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will ...
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... temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by 10 ESSAY I.
... temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by 10 ESSAY I.
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... live holily , their own piety ex- plains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are ...
... live holily , their own piety ex- plains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are ...
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... live apart from him , and independent of him . The Pro- metheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately ap- ologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the ...
... live apart from him , and independent of him . The Pro- metheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately ap- ologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the ...
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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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