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Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought ...
Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought ...
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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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Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant , and , in all his weakness , both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of ...
Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant , and , in all his weakness , both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of ...
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Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humour , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of ...
Much revolving them , he writes out freely his humour , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of ...
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Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our opinions ...
Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our opinions ...
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| Title | Essays, Volume 1 Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume 6 of World's classics |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 354 pages |
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