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He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
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A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire ...
A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire ...
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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience ...
Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience ...
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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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We remember the forest - dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to the first type , and the decoration of it as the wealth of the nation increased ; the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole ...
We remember the forest - dwellers , the first temples , the adherence to the first type , and the decoration of it as the wealth of the nation increased ; the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole ...
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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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