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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction .
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction .
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... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done ...
... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done ...
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... feel in Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? What but this , that every man passes ...
... feel in Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? What but this , that every man passes ...
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In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep , to the stars , rocks , mountains , and waves , I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same ...
In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep , to the stars , rocks , mountains , and waves , I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same ...
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He , too , shall pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man .
He , too , shall pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man .
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Bibliographic information
| 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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