Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... the wise . Seen from the nook and chimney - side of prudence , it wears a ragged and dangerous front . The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also HEROISM .
... the wise . Seen from the nook and chimney - side of prudence , it wears a ragged and dangerous front . The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also HEROISM .
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... side ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years , yet the remembrance of these visions outlasts all other remembrances , and is a wreath of flowers on the oldest brows . But here is a strange fact ; it may seem to many men , in ...
... side ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years , yet the remembrance of these visions outlasts all other remembrances , and is a wreath of flowers on the oldest brows . But here is a strange fact ; it may seem to many men , in ...
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... horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches , -a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , sup- ported on either side by wide stretched sym- metrical wings 46 HISTORY .
... horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches , -a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , sup- ported on either side by wide stretched sym- metrical wings 46 HISTORY .
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First Series ; Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. ported on either side by wide stretched sym- metrical wings . What ... sides of the stone wall which ob- viously gave the idea of the common archi- tectural scroll to abut a tower . By ...
First Series ; Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. ported on either side by wide stretched sym- metrical wings . What ... sides of the stone wall which ob- viously gave the idea of the common archi- tectural scroll to abut a tower . By ...
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... side and on that , but they must turn the whole head . The manners of that period are plain and fierce . The reverence exhibited is for per- sonal qualities ; courage , address , self - com- mand , justice , strength , swiftness , a ...
... side and on that , but they must turn the whole head . The manners of that period are plain and fierce . The reverence exhibited is for per- sonal qualities ; courage , address , self - com- mand , justice , strength , swiftness , a ...
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