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As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
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As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal ...
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The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts ...
The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts ...
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Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history ...
Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history ...
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The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
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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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