Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 13
... any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is The world exists for the education of each man . doing to - day . HISTORY . 13.
... any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is The world exists for the education of each man . doing to - day . HISTORY . 13.
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... name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard riding in the forest ...
... name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard riding in the forest ...
Page 32
... name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite , the Thebais , and the first Capuchins . The ... names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and ...
... name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite , the Thebais , and the first Capuchins . The ... names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and ...
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... name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for and me . you Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within ...
... name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for and me . you Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within ...
Page 38
... name for proud poverty , and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry . We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful , by fighting down the unjust and sensual . Lucy Ashton is another ...
... name for proud poverty , and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry . We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful , by fighting down the unjust and sensual . Lucy Ashton is another ...
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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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