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Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . 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 ...
Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . 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 ...
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We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed ...
We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed ...
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the ...
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the ...
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Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of ...
Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of ...
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In like manner all public facts are to be individualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and ...
In like manner all public facts are to be individualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts 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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