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He should see that he can 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 ...
He should see that he can 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 ...
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What it does not see , what it does not 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 ...
What it does not see , what it does not 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 ...
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... and to 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 .
... and to 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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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 .
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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As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind .
As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind .
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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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