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If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
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We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar ...
We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar ...
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If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
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We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar ...
We , as we read , must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar ...
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We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography .
We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography .
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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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