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If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
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More than once some individual has appeared to me with such neglience of labor and such commanding contemplation , a haughty beneficiary , begging in the name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite ...
More than once some individual has appeared to me with such neglience of labor and such commanding contemplation , a haughty beneficiary , begging in the name of God , as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite ...
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The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as 1 and mine. He who is immersed in what concerns person or place, cannot see the problem of existence.
The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as 1 and mine. He who is immersed in what concerns person or place, cannot see the problem of existence.
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Complete works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1923 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 332 pages |
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