Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's . strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's . strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than ...
... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than ...
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... mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the ...
... mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the ...
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... mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand be- fore each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the ...
... mind's powers and depra- vations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand be- fore each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the ...
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... mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact ...
... mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact ...
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