Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is - - essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , said of the wise man by ...
... character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is - - essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , said of the wise man by ...
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... character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the ... character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , — in ...
... character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the ... character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea further in every fact and circumstance , — in ...
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... character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner ...
... character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner ...
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... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed . In these caverns , already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of ...
... character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed . In these caverns , already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of ...
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... character they chance to see, — painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards, when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they understand them and are willing to let the words go ...
... character they chance to see, — painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards, when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they understand them and are willing to let the words go ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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