Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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... 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 nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions ...
... 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 nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. type of the individual ; through countless indi- viduals the fixed species ; through many species . the genus ; through all genera the steadfast type ; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. type of the individual ; through countless indi- viduals the fixed species ; through many species . the genus ; through all genera the steadfast type ; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity ...
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... 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 , the Thebais , and the first ...
... 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 , the Thebais , and the first ...
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