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When we have gone through this process , and added thereto the Catholic Church , its cross , its music , its processions , its Saints ' days and imageworship , we have as it were been the man that made the minster ; we have seen how it ...
When we have gone through this process , and added thereto the Catholic Church , its cross , its music , its processions , its Saints ' days and imageworship , we have as it were been the man that made the minster ; we have seen how it ...
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She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works , and delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters . I have seen the head ...
She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works , and delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters . I have seen the head ...
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The trivial experience of every 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 .
The trivial experience of every 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 .
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The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad ...
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... woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window , with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned , in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest .
... woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window , with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned , in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest .
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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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