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What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
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What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the ...
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All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . ... We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man ...
All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . ... We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man ...
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Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes ...
Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes ...
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... in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs , libraries , and the broken reliefs and torsos What is the foundation of that interest all men feel of ruined villas . HISTORY . 27.
... in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs , libraries , and the broken reliefs and torsos What is the foundation of that interest all men feel of ruined villas . HISTORY . 27.
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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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