Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence evidently the tripod ...
... come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence evidently the tripod ...
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... comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the ...
... comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the ...
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... come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant ...
... come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant ...
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... come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
... come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
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... come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
... come , all putting questions to the human spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or ... comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into ...
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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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