Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 17
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
... seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic ...
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... unexpected quarters . I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the of a bald mouneye the strata of the rock . There are men whose tain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested 20 HISTORY .
... unexpected quarters . I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the of a bald mouneye the strata of the rock . There are men whose tain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested 20 HISTORY .
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... day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard riding in the forest said to me that the woods and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was 22 HISTORY .
... day is always verifying some old prediction to us and converting into things the words and signs which we had heard riding in the forest said to me that the woods and seen without heed . A lady with whom I was 22 HISTORY .
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... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously ...
... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously ...
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... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel ...
... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his chisel ...
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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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