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The Greek had it seems the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems ...
The Greek had it seems the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems ...
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But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems ...
But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems ...
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The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory .
The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory .
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The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory .
The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory .
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death and afraid of each other.
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death and afraid of each other.
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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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