Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... wise man by Stoic , or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , de- scribes his unattained but attainable self . All liter- Books , ature writes the character of the wise man 6 ESSAY 1 .
... wise man by Stoic , or oriental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , de- scribes his unattained but attainable self . All liter- Books , ature writes the character of the wise man 6 ESSAY 1 .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Books , ature writes the character of the wise man . monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Books , ature writes the character of the wise man . monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he ...
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... wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic ex- pression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and ...
... wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic ex- pression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic , and ...
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... wise man . shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that ...
... wise man . shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that ...
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... wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . - I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his be - ing , as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh 50 ...
... wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . - I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his be - ing , as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh 50 ...
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