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Page 12
... the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home .
... the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home .
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... many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . - History must be this or it is nothing . Every law nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves which the state enacts indicates a fact in human HISTORY . 15.
... many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . - History must be this or it is nothing . Every law nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves which the state enacts indicates a fact in human HISTORY . 15.
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The fact teaches him how Belus was worshipped and how the Pyramids were built , better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door ...
The fact teaches him how Belus was worshipped and how the Pyramids were built , better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door ...
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But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their ...
But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their ...
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But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their ...
But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their ...
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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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