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It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ...
It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ...
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A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and ...
A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and ...
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This sculpture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . ܪ We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed 40 ESSAY II .
This sculpture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . ܪ We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed 40 ESSAY II .
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There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the ; forced smile which we put on in company where we do ...
There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the ; forced smile which we put on in company where we do ...
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All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , , and , in the universal miracle , petty and particular miracles disappear . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology ...
All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , , and , in the universal miracle , petty and particular miracles disappear . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology ...
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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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