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When we have gone through this process , and added thereto the Catholic Church , its cross , its music , its processions , its Saints ' days and image - worship , we have , as it were , been the man that made the minster ; we have seen ...
When we have gone through this process , and added thereto the Catholic Church , its cross , its music , its processions , its Saints ' days and image - worship , we have , as it were , been the man that made the minster ; we have seen ...
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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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The trivial experience of every day is always veri-fying some old prediction to us , and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me ...
The trivial experience of every day is always veri-fying some old prediction to us , and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me ...
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The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
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... in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of а 1 Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that 18 ESSAY I.
... in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of а 1 Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that 18 ESSAY I.
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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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