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... 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.
... 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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He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret 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 ...
He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret 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 ...
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Thus of the genius . of one remarkable people we have a fourfold representation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ?
Thus of the genius . of one remarkable people we have a fourfold representation : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ?
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The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the 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 ...
The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the 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 ...
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The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is that the persons speak simply , - speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the ...
The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is that the persons speak simply , - speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become 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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