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Then we have it once more 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 ...
Then we have it once more 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 ...
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Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of ...
Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of ...
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... an eternal flower , with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty In like manner all public facts are to be individualized , all private facts are to be generalized .
... an eternal flower , with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty In like manner all public facts are to be individualized , all private facts are to be generalized .
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What is the nature and power of that science - baffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
What is the nature and power of that science - baffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
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What is the nature and power of that science - baffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
What is the nature and power of that science - baffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
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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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