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Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects ...
Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes , which neglects ...
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... nd associates as happily , as beside his own chimeys . Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated , in the increased range of his faculties of observation , ا which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects 20 ESSAY 1 .
... nd associates as happily , as beside his own chimeys . Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated , in the increased range of his faculties of observation , ا which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects 20 ESSAY 1 .
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ا which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intellectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind , through the dissipation of ...
ا which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intellectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind , through the dissipation of ...
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... each market - town of Persia , Spain , and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital : so out of the human heart go , as it were , highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man .
... each market - town of Persia , Spain , and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital : so out of the human heart go , as it were , highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man .
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No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
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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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