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The spirit sports with time• Can crowd eternity into an hour , Or stretch an hour to eternity . ” We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth .
The spirit sports with time• Can crowd eternity into an hour , Or stretch an hour to eternity . ” We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth .
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It is not that which a man delights to unlock to a noble friend ; which he meditates on with joy and self - approval in his hour of love and aspiration ; but rather what he then puts out of sight , only showing the brilliant result ...
It is not that which a man delights to unlock to a noble friend ; which he meditates on with joy and self - approval in his hour of love and aspiration ; but rather what he then puts out of sight , only showing the brilliant result ...
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By Latin and English poetry , we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature - flowers , birds , mountains , sun , and moon ; -yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing , by all their poems , of any of these ...
By Latin and English poetry , we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature - flowers , birds , mountains , sun , and moon ; -yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing , by all their poems , of any of these ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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| Title | Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson The Camelot series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | W. Scott, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2005 |
| Length | 351 pages |
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