Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time ...
... man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time ...
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... man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece ... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
... man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece ... man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a ...
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... man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , de- scribes his unattained but attainable self . All liter- Books , ature writes the character ...
... man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , de- scribes his unattained but attainable self . All liter- Books , ature writes the character ...
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... man will read history aright , who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is doing to- day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age ...
... man will read history aright , who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is doing to- day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we But we apply ourselves to find it not in our man . the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We re- member the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we But we apply ourselves to find it not in our man . the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We re- member the ...
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