Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and If he could What is our to leave the print 18 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and If he could What is our to leave the print 18 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. If he could What is our to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven - facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul - ebbing downward into the forms into ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. If he could What is our to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven - facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul - ebbing downward into the forms into ...
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... your meta- physics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and colour . Leave your theory , as 32 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... your meta- physics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and colour . Leave your theory , as 32 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. with shape and colour . Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. with shape and colour . Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines ...
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... leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and , in his turn , the founder of a sect . The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume , and do not ...
... leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and , in his turn , the founder of a sect . The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume , and do not ...
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