Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... tion of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know the Proteus . What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday , who slept last night like a corpse , and this morning stood and ran ? And what see I on any side but the ...
... tion of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know the Proteus . What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday , who slept last night like a corpse , and this morning stood and ran ? And what see I on any side but the ...
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... Gay- Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organisa- tion . Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light ? the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft HISTORY 21 177.
... Gay- Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organisa- tion . Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light ? the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft HISTORY 21 177.
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... shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the attempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no inven- tion , no hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string 26 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the attempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no inven- tion , no hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string 26 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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... tion of eternal love , conversing with that which he knows was always , and always must be , because it really is now . It appeared , moreover , that if this doctrine could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright ...
... tion of eternal love , conversing with that which he knows was always , and always must be , because it really is now . It appeared , moreover , that if this doctrine could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright ...
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... tion , is a compend of the world , and a correlative of every other . Each one is an entire emblem of human life ; of its good and ill , its trials , its enemies , its course and its end . And each one must somehow accommodate the whole ...
... tion , is a compend of the world , and a correlative of every other . Each one is an entire emblem of human life ; of its good and ill , its trials , its enemies , its course and its end . And each one must somehow accommodate the whole ...
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