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Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats ...
Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats ...
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Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats ...
Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective ; and as crabs , goats ...
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The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris was , when we have made a constellation of it to 14 HISTORY .
The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris was , when we have made a constellation of it to 14 HISTORY .
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So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson ; before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson ; before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
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He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as ...
He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as ...
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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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