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... in condition and 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 ...
... in condition and 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 ...
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All literature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is ...
All literature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is ...
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How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same 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 ...
How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same 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 ...
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... tom of making houses and tombs in the living rock , " says Heeren in his Researches on the Ethiopians , “ determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed .
... tom of making houses and tombs in the living rock , " says Heeren in his Researches on the Ethiopians , “ determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed .
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The attraction of these manners is that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and ...
The attraction of these manners is that they belong to man , and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and ...
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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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