Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is The world exists for the education of each man . doing to - day . HISTORY . 13.
... read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age , by men whose names have resounded far , has any deeper sense than what he is The world exists for the education of each man . doing to - day . HISTORY . 13.
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... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
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... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like ...
... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like ...
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... senses , of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phœbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of ...
... senses , of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phœbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of ...
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... sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our ... senses and in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity and ...
... sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our ... senses and in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity and ...
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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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