Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Empire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleve to his genius , that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man . An institution is the lengthened shadow of ...
... Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Empire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleve to his genius , that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man . An institution is the lengthened shadow of ...
Page 91
... Cæsar , and not the player of Cæsar ; then the self - same strain of thought , emotion as pure , wit as subtle , motions as swift , mounting , extrav- agant , and a heart as great , self - sufficing , dauntless , which on the waves of ...
... Cæsar , and not the player of Cæsar ; then the self - same strain of thought , emotion as pure , wit as subtle , motions as swift , mounting , extrav- agant , and a heart as great , self - sufficing , dauntless , which on the waves of ...
Page 98
... good , For human nature's daily food ; " when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness ; when he cannot feel his right to it , though he were Cæsar ; he cannot feel more right to it , than to the firmament 98 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... good , For human nature's daily food ; " when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness ; when he cannot feel his right to it , though he were Cæsar ; he cannot feel more right to it , than to the firmament 98 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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