Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , — a sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression builded geometry . Then we have it once again in HISTORY . 19.
... in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , — a sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression builded geometry . Then we have it once again in HISTORY . 19.
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... beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us ...
... beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us ...
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... beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be individualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts ...
... beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be individualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts ...
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... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote ...
... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote ...
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... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote ...
... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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