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Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes ...
Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes ...
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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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ince of the empire , making each market - town of Persia , Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital : so out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the ...
ince of the empire , making each market - town of Persia , Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital : so out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the ...
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... or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a ...
... or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a ...
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... or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a ...
... or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a ...
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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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