Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
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... person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which ...
... person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which ...
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... person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the - - passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live whole line of temples ...
... person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the - - passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live whole line of temples ...
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... persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture ...
... persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their architecture ...
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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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