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... quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches , -- a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide - stretched symmetrical wings .
... quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches , -- a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide - stretched symmetrical wings .
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A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that goddess , in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; — his in man . own form and features by their exalted 34 ESSAY I.
A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that goddess , in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; — his in man . own form and features by their exalted 34 ESSAY I.
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The human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of conversation . It finds a tongue in literature Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to ...
The human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of conversation . It finds a tongue in literature Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to ...
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Vice is the absence or departure of the same . Nothing , Falsehood , may indeed stand as the great Night or shade , on which , as a background , the living universe paints itself forth ; but no fact is begotten by it ; it cannot work ...
Vice is the absence or departure of the same . Nothing , Falsehood , may indeed stand as the great Night or shade , on which , as a background , the living universe paints itself forth ; but no fact is begotten by it ; it cannot work ...
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We side with the hero , as we read or paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to ...
We side with the hero , as we read or paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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