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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant ...
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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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A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the ...
A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the ...
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A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the ...
A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the ...
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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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