Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . L HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all.
First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . L HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all.
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... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than ...
... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than ...
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... mind wrote history , and this m read it . The Sphinx must solve her own ridd If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to explained from individual experience . There i relation between the hours of our life and the c turies of ...
... mind wrote history , and this m read it . The Sphinx must solve her own ridd If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to explained from individual experience . There i relation between the hours of our life and the c turies of ...
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... mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tab- lets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus na- ture hide itself . ' This remedies 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 its tab- lets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus na- ture hide itself . ' This remedies the ...
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... mind , the purpose of nature , be- trays itself in the use we make of the signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences avail to keep a fact a fact ...
... mind , the purpose of nature , be- trays itself in the use we make of the signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences avail to keep a fact a fact ...
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