Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
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... persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their ...
... persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete form . Then we have it once more in their ...
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... honour and such lax discipline as great boys have ? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply - speak as persons who have great good sense 14 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... honour and such lax discipline as great boys have ? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply - speak as persons who have great good sense 14 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. simply - speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the ... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I admire the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. simply - speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the ... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I admire the ...
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... I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of SELF - RELIANCE 29.
... I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of SELF - RELIANCE 29.
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