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A true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in disHe hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character ...
A true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in disHe hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character ...
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Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all ...
Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all ...
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... in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in cona vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break TIISTORY . 13.
... in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in cona vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break TIISTORY . 13.
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a vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people , we have a fourfold representation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar ...
a vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people , we have a fourfold representation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar ...
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As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes , but travelled ...
As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes , but travelled ...
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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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