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Rare , extravagant spirits 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 .
Rare , extravagant spirits 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 .
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One after another he 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 ...
One after another he 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 ...
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The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the gods come among men , they are not known .
The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the gods come among men , they are not known .
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In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . ... 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 places ...
In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . ... 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 places ...
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In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . ... 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 places ...
In splendid variety these changes come , all putting questions to the human spirit . ... 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 places ...
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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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