Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some ...
... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some ...
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... face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt , sharply defined and symmetrical features , whose eye - sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and ...
... face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt , sharply defined and symmetrical features , whose eye - sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and ...
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... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it 40 HISTORY .
... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it 40 HISTORY .
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... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it 40 HISTORY .
... face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it 40 HISTORY .
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... face of man ; you shall not hear any name ; — the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience. You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its ...
... face of man ; you shall not hear any name ; — the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience. You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its ...
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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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