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Page 13
... 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.
... 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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... flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with ...
... flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs of the fish . The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy . A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with ...
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... a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite ... a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth .
... a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite ... a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth .
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I can symbolize my thought by using the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for you Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are ...
I can symbolize my thought by using the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but a name for you Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are ...
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Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood Castle a fine 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 ...
Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood Castle a fine 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 ...
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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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