Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of 2 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of 2 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our ...
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... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an im- mortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . What ...
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an im- mortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . What ...
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... stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson , before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem hanging ...
... stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson , before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem hanging ...
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... the migration of colonies ) , it gives the history of religion with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is C the friend of man ; stands between the unjust ' HISTORY 17.
... the migration of colonies ) , it gives the history of religion with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is C the friend of man ; stands between the unjust ' HISTORY 17.
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