Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. Genius studies the causal thought, and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge, ere ...
... genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. Genius studies the causal thought, and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge, ere ...
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... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
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... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
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... genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a ...
... genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a ...
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... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . 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 ...
... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . 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 ...
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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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