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Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or ...
Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or ...
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We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed ...
We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed ...
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I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest , which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same ...
I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest , which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same ...
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... that " common souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . ” And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its a very looks and manners , the same power and HISTORY . 15.
... that " common souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . ” And why ? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its a very looks and manners , the same power and HISTORY . 15.
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a very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must ...
a very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must ...
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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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