Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the ...
... live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the ...
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... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , some- time , it will ...
... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , some- time , it will ...
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... ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , 16 HISTORY .
... ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , 16 HISTORY .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man ...
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... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are ...
... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zo- roaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are ...
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