Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind ...
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind ...
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... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind ...
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind ...
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... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . 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 ...
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . 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 ...
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... Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme ...
... Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme ...
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... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and ...
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and ...
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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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