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We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar ...
We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar ...
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We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar ...
We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar ...
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All history becomes subjective ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . 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 ...
All history becomes subjective ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . 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 ...
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Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its ...
Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its ...
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... and indeed of all the old literature , is that the persons speak simply , — speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind .
... and indeed of all the old literature , is that the persons speak simply , — speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind .
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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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