Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 19
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannise over them , and make the men of routine the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extin- guished every spark of that light by which ...
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannise over them , and make the men of routine the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extin- guished every spark of that light by which ...
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... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople ! What does ...
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople ! What does ...
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... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to ...
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to ...
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... least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote this primary wisdom 36 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote this primary wisdom 36 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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... wisdom , and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism . We lie in the lap of immense intelligence , which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity . When we discern justice , when we discern truth , we do ...
... wisdom , and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism . We lie in the lap of immense intelligence , which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity . When we discern justice , when we discern truth , we do ...
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