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... transformed to a cow , offends the imagination ; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris - Jove , a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows !
... transformed to a cow , offends the imagination ; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris - Jove , a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows !
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Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated , in the increased range of his faculties of observation , which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ...
Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated , in the increased range of his faculties of observation , which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ...
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The Greek had it seems the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems ...
The Greek had it seems the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems ...
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Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers . The political parties meet in numerous conventions ; the greater the concourse and with each new uproar of announcement , The delegation from ...
Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers . The political parties meet in numerous conventions ; the greater the concourse and with each new uproar of announcement , The delegation from ...
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On winged feet, Lo ! it rushes thee to meet ; And all that Nature made thy own, Floating in air or pent in stone, Will rive the hills and swim the sea And, like thy shadow, follow thee. in. COMPENSATION. Ever since I was a boy I have.
On winged feet, Lo ! it rushes thee to meet ; And all that Nature made thy own, Floating in air or pent in stone, Will rive the hills and swim the sea And, like thy shadow, follow thee. in. COMPENSATION. Ever since I was a boy I have.
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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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