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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright , who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is doing today . The world exists for the education ...
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright , who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is doing today . The world exists for the education ...
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... and if England or Egypt have any thing to say to him , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike .
... and if England or Egypt have any thing to say to him , he will try the case ; if not , let them for ever be silent He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike .
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Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people , we have a fourfold representation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ?
Thus , of the genius of one remarkable people , we have a fourfold representation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ?
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The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , - of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . HISTORY . 21.
The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , - of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . HISTORY . 21.
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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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| 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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