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This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon ...
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He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the ...
He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the ...
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When he has satisfied himself , in general and in detail , that it was made by such a person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ...
When he has satisfied himself , in general and in detail , that it was made by such a person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ...
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We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed ...
We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed ...
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The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply , — speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the ...
The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply , — speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the ...
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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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