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Every 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 ...
Every 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 ...
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A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire ...
A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire ...
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So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literof men ; course . ature writes the character of the wise man ...
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic , or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attainable self . All literof men ; course . ature writes the character of the wise man ...
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course . ature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is ...
course . ature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is ...
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Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We remember the forest - dwellers , the first temples ...
Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder . We remember the forest - dwellers , the first temples ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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