Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... acrostic or Alexandrian stanza : -read it forward , backward , or across , it still spells the same thing . In this pleasing contrite wood - life which God allows me , let me record day by day my honest thought without pros- pect or ...
... acrostic or Alexandrian stanza : -read it forward , backward , or across , it still spells the same thing . In this pleasing contrite wood - life which God allows me , let me record day by day my honest thought without pros- pect or ...
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... one acquaintance , and every emotion of his heart in some one . He is like a quincunx of trees which counts five , east , west , north , or south ; or , an initial , medial and terminal acrostic . And why not EMERSON'S ESSAYS 81.
... one acquaintance , and every emotion of his heart in some one . He is like a quincunx of trees which counts five , east , west , north , or south ; or , an initial , medial and terminal acrostic . And why not EMERSON'S ESSAYS 81.
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. initial , medial and terminal acrostic . And why not ? He cleaves to one person , and avoids another , according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself , truly seeking himself in his associates , and ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. initial , medial and terminal acrostic . And why not ? He cleaves to one person , and avoids another , according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself , truly seeking himself in his associates , and ...
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