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... meets Osiris- Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the meta- morphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the diversity equally obvious . There is at the ...
... meets Osiris- Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the meta- morphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the diversity equally obvious . There is at the ...
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... associates as happily , as beside his own chim- eys . Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated , in the increased range of his faculties of observation , which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet 20 ESSAY 1 .
... associates as happily , as beside his own chim- eys . Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated , in the increased range of his faculties of observation , which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet 20 ESSAY 1 .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intellect- ual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind , through ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intellect- ual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind , through ...
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... meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar ...
... meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar ...
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... numbers . The political parties meet in numerous conventions ; the greater the concourse , and with each new uproar of an- nouncement , The delegation from Essex ! The Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! SELF - RELIANCE .
... numbers . The political parties meet in numerous conventions ; the greater the concourse , and with each new uproar of an- nouncement , The delegation from Essex ! The Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! SELF - RELIANCE .
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