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He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and 6 when it shall be a private opinion again , 4 ESSAY I.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and 6 when it shall be a private opinion again , 4 ESSAY I.
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Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , - a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture ...
Then we have it once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , - a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture ...
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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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What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when ...
What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when ...
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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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