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He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
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He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
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A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire ...
A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire ...
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A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire ...
A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire ...
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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience ...
Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , - must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience ...
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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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