Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age , or state of society , or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat correspond- ing in his life . Everything tends ...
... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age , or state of society , or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat correspond- ing in his life . Everything tends ...
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... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
... sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No ...
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... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like ...
... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like ...
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... senses , but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding . Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . She Nature is full of a sublime ...
... senses , but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding . Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . She Nature is full of a sublime ...
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... 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 , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding ... sense 14 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... 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 , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding ... sense 14 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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