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A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and ...
A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and ...
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The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees , with all their boughs , to a festal or solemn arcade ; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them . No one can walk ...
The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees , with all their boughs , to a festal or solemn arcade ; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them . No one can walk ...
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I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence evidently the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus .
I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence evidently the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus .
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It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame .
It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame .
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It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame .
It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame .
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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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