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Page 12
The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains ...
The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed again . Nothing is so fleeting as form ; yet never does it quite deny itself . In man we still trace the remains ...
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... whilst subject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature , - in all fable as 26 ESSAY ...
... whilst subject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature , - in all fable as 26 ESSAY ...
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm ...
We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For , the sense of being which in calm ...
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Was it that houses and lands , offices , wine , horses , dress , luxury , are had by unprincipled men , whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these ...
Was it that houses and lands , offices , wine , horses , dress , luxury , are had by unprincipled men , whilst the saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be made to these ...
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Whilst the world is thus dual , so is every one of its parts . The entire system of things gets represented in every particle . There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a single ...
Whilst the world is thus dual , so is every one of its parts . The entire system of things gets represented in every particle . There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea , day and night , man and woman , in a single ...
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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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